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klm
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Sep 24, 2013

Possible gov shutdown - anyone changing plans?

We are in Maine, near Acadia for the next 3 weeks. I have read that if congress doesn't pass the budget by 9/30, the National Parks will close. Whatever happens in DC, it will be last minute. Is anyo...
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rockhillmanor
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Sep 24, 2013
Better think again about those plans.! :C

10 ways a government shutdown would affect your daily life.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/politics/government-shutdown-daily-life/index.html

#10.

"Vacation all I ever wanted: Need to get away? Well, you can't. At least not to national parks. Or to national zoos. Or to national museums. They'd all be closed. That's 368 National Park Service sites closed, millions of visitors turned away."

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