FORKS — The Reed-Schubert showdown is set for almost-sunset Friday, Nov. 10. It’s the long-awaited squirt gun fight between Forks Mayor Nedra Reed and her Sequim counterpart, Walt Schubert.
Following a challenge from Reed and the Forks Chamber of Commerce, the two cities engaged in a contest of which town has higher temperatures from May through October.
Reed proclaimed that Forks, though much wetter, would be warmer.
She was proved right by Weather Channel readings that showed that the West End high temperate was an average of a degree or two above that of Sequim, even if the latter saw clearer skies.
In July, Forks’ average high was 71 to Sequim’s 69.
In September, Forks hovered around 70 while Sequim dipped to 65.
The prize for the winner of this contest: the first squirt in a water-gun duel in the winning city.
The duel was supposed to happen in October, but Reed said she and Schubert couldn’t find a mutually workable date when Sequim’s mayor could make the 74-mile trip west.
At last they settled on Nov. 10, when they will let the squirting begin at 3:30 p.m. in Tillicum Park, 420 Tillicum Lane, Forks.
“She’s going to squirt first,” said Schubert. “That’s the way Nedra wants it . . . I may take a little bit of abuse.”
Reed will present Schubert with a consolation prize: a T-shirt whose front reads, “Forks is warmer,” and whose back says, “But Sequim is still cool.”
