[NU Sports] 'Cats-Huskers

Mon Nov 7 11:21:18 CST 2011

Yes he is credited with the statement but as pointed out earlier Palo Alto weather is night and day compared with SF. It's not unusual to have a 35 -40 degree difference in the summer.  

The advantage is if you don't like the weather, rather than "wait 10 minutes" as in Chicago, you drive for 30 minutes and you will get the weather you want

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From: "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:07:56 
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 'Cats-Huskers

I think Mark Twain said that the coldest day he ever experienced was in San Francisco in
July?

Have to look it up. It's one of his less famous sayings.

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Since I have lived out here since 1983, in San Francisco (83-89), in San
Diego (89-92) and since in the LA area ...

As has been mentioned -- there is no beach at Stanford. It is down the
peninsula, about 45 minutes south of SF proper. It's called "The Farm."
Usually, it's warmer there than in the city. It's typically warmer there
than in Berkeley, which really can be cold and foggy. My wife went to
college at Berkeley. She jokes that she spent most of her college years
wrapped up in a sleeping bag with a hemline and sleeves. It can get chilly
at night at Stanford, too. I covered the 2003 track and field national
championships at Stanford, and it was so cold the night of the men's 10k I
thought we were all going to get pneumonia.

The nearest beach from Stanford would be Half Moon Bay, which is an
excellent place to grow pumpkins. The nearest beaches you'd be most likely
to visit as a tourist would be 1) Santa Cruz, which has a great boardwalk
and an excellent collection of hippies and stoners and 2) Monterey, which
has a great aquarium and, of course, nearby Pebble Beach and the great golf
courses. My brother went to the Navy grad school at Monterey. I did a lot
of scuba diving there. The water is 47 degrees. It's not for the
faint-hearted.

If you have ever visited Stanford, it is pretty easy to understand why any
kid with an ounce of sense would want to go there. We at Northwestern have
a totally uphill battle, and it only starts with the weather. Pretty much
everything about Stanford is first-rate. Every outstanding kid in
California learns from the time they're in seventh grade that Stanford is
the brass ring, and that's that.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >Hey guys, I agree with you, there is no "beach" at Stanford, but when a
> kid commits to
> >Stanford over NU, being on the coast is always mentioned, right after how
> good the
> >academics are at Stanford....
>
>
> Yeah, I think some folks may be overlooking the forest for the trees here
> a bit. It's not San Diego, but it is northern California--there's a reason
> so many people are willing to pay pretty insane housing prices to live
> there.
>
> It's not difficult to understand why, all else being equal, a kid might
> opt for winters in Cali over winters in Chicago.
>
> Tom
>
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