title: Body Weather
author: Bruce Palmer
description: A marvelous look at weather and environmental influence on health.
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  Survivor Wars: Out of LA (Volume I)
  
  
  By Dennis Elder
  
  
  2018
  
  
  
  
  
  “At the Sun’s core the temperature is approximately twenty seven million
  degrees Fahrenheit. The energy there is equivalent to 100 billion atomic bombs
  detonating every second of every minute. Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom…”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Thanks to:
  
  
  Scott & Holly for inspiration
  
  
  Keli for illustrations
  
  
  Cindy for proofing
  
  
  And friends for perusing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Prologue: 1859 The Rocky Mountains
  
  
  
  
  
  Jake woke to increasing light on the tent fly. As usual, his body was stiff in
  the morning from miner work, but it was all he knew. Per his morning ritual,
  after he awoke, he’d roll over in his uncomfortable cot, lay on his back and
  begin stretching out his aching limbs. First his fingers and arms, then his
  shoulders and finally his lower legs and ankles. His ankles were the worst.
  Last few years seemed like t