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Old Mon Aug 28, 2006, 11:09am
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Originally Posted by RonRef
I hope that you have a good attorney!
I am sure you were at least partially kidding here ... but how could the referee have anything to do with humidity? Do you folks in other states have humidity meters on your belts? What is the limit where you are, and who's in charge of the decision?

Seems very odd to me - without heat, how would humidity be dangerous enough to stop play? Seems to me the heat is a much bigger problem (and those of you who have some knowledge in the area would know that if you have 95% humidity, you're not going to be in the 90's in temperature).
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