Friday, 4 October 2013 | By: Amandine Ronny Montegerai

Secret coded plea on National Weather Service site: 'PLEASE PAY US'


Government Shutdown

Some at the Anchorage, Alaska, office of the National Weather Service has a message for Americans four days into the shutdown of the federal government :

"PLEASE PAY US"

The Message was hidden in the first paragraph of the early morning forecast for the Anchorage region Friday.  The first letters of each line of the paragraph spell it out - a type of simple code called an acrostic.