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[[underline]] Late  in December 1917 [[/underline]] 

Not so! I moved 3 times more, and in view within the next two weeks are two more moving days....The "Texas Northern" that we'd all heard about came up with sudden uncontrolled fury one Friday morning. I was in the air at 11:45 and noticed the gustiness and increasing velocity of the wind which made my "high horse" careen and go pitching from side to side with the "bumps", I came down at 12:15 and noted, as I was landing, that the wind had changed from South to East; it had earlier in the day veered from North to South. In my turn to head into the wind I almost took off an undercarriage by crosslanding; then I had more or less difficulty in taxi-ing back to the hanger. Inside of half and hour flying was called off on account of too strong a wind, and inside of an hour a weirdly howling 80 or 90 mile an hour gale came rushing down from the [[underline]] NORTH [[/underline]].

What a snowless blizzard it proved to be! To walk between the buildings was an effort to remain