June 27th is the birthday of economist Dr. Ravi Batra [1]. (Born 1943.)
This is also the birthday of movie director J.J. Abrams (of Star Trek fame.)
On this day in 1957, Hurricane Audrey [2] made landfall, killing more than 400 people.
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Safecastle’s big Mountain House long term storage foods sale [3] ends on June 30th, so get your order in soon!
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Today, we present another product review by Pat Cascio, our Senior Field Gear Editor: