Peninsula’s wet city — Forks — wins temperature contest over Sequim

FORKS — She doesn’t yet know when, but Forks Mayor Nedra Reed has got her gun and she plans to use it.

“It’s a girly gun,” Reed said of her spangled orange-and-turquoise pistol.

It’ll do the job, however, when the day of drenching comes.

That day will be the culmination of a contest that began last summer.

Reed, believing her city’s temperatures to be superior, challenged Sequim to a duel.

She believed Forks’ average highs, from May through September, would be higher than Sequim’s.

The deal was that if The Weather Channel proved her right, Reed would shoot her Sequim counterpart, Mayor Walt Schubert, with a squirt gun.

ADVERTISEMENT
0 seconds of 0 secondsVolume 0%
Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts
00:00
00:00
00:00
 

Back in June, Schubert declared that victory was certain for his sunny city.

But Price & Crandall, a Forks bookkeeping firm, certified the temperature averages and told Reed last week that she had won.

“To be perfectly honest, I am surprised,” Reed said.

“When I go to Sequim, the sun is always shining.

In Forks, there can be a torrential downpour, “yet the sky over the eastern end of Clallam County is clear and beautiful.”

But this was not a who’s-the-clearest contest.

Forks would have lost that, to put it mildly.

In September, for example, Forks got 4.84 inches of rain while Sequim saw 0.84 inches.

Reed, for her part, will rain on Schubert in Forks’ Tillicum Park, 420 Tillicum Lane.

The two mayors have yet to set a date for their meeting. Both are checking their schedules, Reed said Friday.

Schubert said he is ready to do Reed’s bidding.

“I will go to Forks when Nedra says, and take my lickin’s,” he said.

More in News

Caro Tchannie and her daughter Lola Hatch, 9, of Tulallip try a long string of beads at Squatchcon on Thursday at the Vern Burton Community Center gym in Port Angeles. Kevin VanDinter of Port Angeles was one of 60 vendors at the four day event, which continues through Sunday. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Squatchcon underway

Caro Tchannie and her daughter Lola Hatch, 9, of Tulallip try a… Continue reading

Capital budgets include Peninsula

Millions in state funds earmarked

Mike Chapman.
Chapman asks not to employ legislative privilege

State senator removes an exemption to Public Records Act

Port of Port Townsend considering Short’s Farm access

Commissioners aim to balance public, agricultural use

Jefferson library director to start new job May 19

Meet-and-greet event scheduled for May 22

Man taken to hospital after car hits tree

A man was transported to a hospital after a single-car… Continue reading

Bypass roads to be installed at two fish passage sites

Contractors will begin construction of one-lane bypass roads at two… Continue reading

Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group
Stew Cockburn stands in the spring annual section prior to it being for early spring gardeners.
New Dungeness Nursery planted in landscaping industry

Family and their employees work 2-acre location in Sequim

Partnership discussion may violate state law

OMC in Phase 2 of exploratory process

Members of the public take a guided tour at Port Townsend High School on Wednesday. (Elijah Sussman/Peninsula Daily News)
Port Townsend school district may seek $90M bond

Tour highlights high school’s infrastructure needs

A pair of wind surfers take off from the breakwater at Port Townsend Marina in an apparent race across the bay on Tuesday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Catching the wind

A pair of wind surfers take off from the breakwater at Port… Continue reading