[blam]

I expect all the 8,000 year old going-ons is linked to the collapse of the ice dams containing Lake Agassiz in North America. Flooding the oceans with not only more water but, a sudden rush of fresh water.

[jpsb]

Hmmmm, not enough water, I'd say. I'll bet the settlement is really older then they think, more like 12,000. Or then the ice started to melt.

That do you think are we seeing the beginning of another iceing period? Kinda looks like it. It's damn cold here in Texas tonight.

[in the Arena]

The farm that my father grew up on and which is still owned by our family falls in the Lake Agassiz lake bed and is part of the Red River flood plane. As you sit in the farm yard and looked South East you can see a ridge of low mountains, more like hills that we always referred to as the 'blue hills' and my Grand Mother in her 90's refers to as the 'shore of 'Lake Agassi'... Some of the most fertile farm land in the area resides in this flood plane.