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Hi All,
Tis a bit chilly to day and horror of horrors it has started to snow!  how will I get home!
(why does this country seize up when it snows, in Canada they run trains at -15 (on time), here -3 with a cross wind will get the bu***r cancelled  )
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In fairness, Canada gets an awful lot more practice at snow than the UK does but I've never been able to work out why their railway points don't freeze but ours do.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Same here in Holland, only one snowflake or leaf has to fall on the rails and the trains stop 
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Holland, guess you guys don't have much trouble with snow gathering on hills...
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Au contraire, we gather lots of "snow" and we get very high
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Hmm, but this cold spot has been on the way for some time, it's not like its a shock! but still. On the railway thing it's due to the fact that they use proper anti-freeze unlike our lot.
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Last week it snowed here as well and since then the temperatures have been well below zero. The roads have been cleared and dry for a week now, still everyone drives around as if they expected to be dead the next second.
Don't ask me why. It happens every year and one might assume that they learn it at some point, but obviously they do not. Perhaps they accidentally issued drivers licenses to the monkeys in the zoo, who knows.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Same here in Holland, they seem to be giving driving licenses to stuntdrivers. I'm on the A6 almost every day and have seen a lot of these "stunts"
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Is it true that you have to wear wooden shoes when driving? Or that you get a license despite failing the test three times, with the conditions to have a yellow/black license plate and always having to tow around a camping trailer?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Absolutely !
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CodeWraith wrote: everyone drives around as if they expected to be dead the next second
Same thing kind of happens here except in reverse. The first time we get snow for the season everyone acts like they forgot how to drive on it. People sliding all over the place, riding right on each other's bumper, etc.
I make it a point to not drive that day.
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Someone sent me this the other day - tho I don't know where ti originated:Quote: "I remember the bitter winter forecast for 2017.......and it was bad....we all saw it....it came down upon us slowly....like in slow motion....the whole town turned around & stared....it was a snowflake....but this one was bad..it was a heavy snowflake....we all dived for cover....but there was no getting away from it....it landed...that was it...gritters were gritting everywhere else....cars were skidding left right & centre over the snowflake....in the end, the police blocked the paving stone it had landed on off. horrible...just horrible...I'm glad it didn't land on my nose is all I can say. "
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Well, the only fear i currently have is that my diesel car doesn't fire up at our -19°C (If it will fall below -20).
Aside that, we in the Black forest can deal with snow and cold
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-3?! We stop going out under 10!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Meanwhile in Italy[^] (sorry, it's only in Italian)
Rome, Italy capital. The city of the Pope (although technically He resides in its own state at the center of Rome), capital of one of G7 countries, for 10 centimeters (4 inches for you former barbarian tribes, now you're no longer tribes) of snow is in complete lock-down. A fast train from Reggio Calabria to Turin (1300 km) took 27 hours to complete its journey because Rome, one of the stops on the way, was completely kaputt.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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That's typical Italian, even touristic websites are only available in the Italian language.
Fantastic country, but the websites 
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Only the websites? Any public service ever.
Also, in Italy nobody knows technology and wants to pay for it. When getting a quotation for a websites the standard response is "I have a cousin who understands computers who can do it for me for 100€". And they follow through! When they don't directly propose payment in visibility.
This[^] is our broadband penetration in the best cities. More than half the territory still has 640k and someone not even that (my parents cannot get a land line because the telephone exchange is fully utilized in their area).
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Still waiting for it here - haven't seen snow for 5 years now.
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I very nearly had to put a jacket on today.
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I grew up in Canada, in Northern Ontario, so I am used to snow and ice.
Now, I reside in South Carolina, where they can't deal with ice and snow.
So... what's the difference?
Well, in Canada, when the weather gets cold, the ground freezes. So, snow is snow.. it doesn't melt on contact and form a layer of black ice.
South Carolina, on the other hand, never gets cold enough long enough to freeze the ground. So, snow may stick if there is a volume of it (think many inches), but the bottom layer will melt and become a layer of ice. The roads become a sheet of ice, and, as my wife says: 4 wheel drive doesn't help on ice.
In terms of weather, it was 37 degrees F this morning when I met my group of men for an outdoor, any-weather work-out. I had running shorts and a t-shirt; the people who grew up in the South were wearing sweat pant and sweat shirt.
As much as anything, it is what you are used to.
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You would think Denver Colorado would know about snow, Don't you believe it.
Oh dear me. Denver is a mile high. Oh my! - Well were up in the rockies to the west of Denver at 2 miles up in the sky where all the ski resorts are. We get buckets of snow and no amount, not even 2 feet will do more than start the rumble of the snow plows and purr of the two stage snow blowers in Summit County suburbia. And the sounds of "Hoo Wah, Hoo Wah" as the residents head to the slopes 2 miles away for fresh tracks.
Denver? 3 inches of freshie and there is mayhem on the roads and the local news is in a panic.
Snow flakes.
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Ron Anders wrote: You would think Denver Colorado would know about snow, Don't you believe it.
Was out visiting my little brother in Denver a couple weeks back (Feb 2nd-5th) and they got an ice storm the morning of the 4th. By 3pm that day it was nearly 50 degrees out and everything had melted and evaporated.
How can you learn to drive on the stuff when it is gone in under 12 hours?
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I thought by the title, you'd be talking about my ex-wife.
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Please help me out here. Last time I was in San Antonio, the only thing to the east was...
the Gulf of Mexico...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Technically, anything not in a given location can be considered to be east of said location, unless of course you prefer one of the other cardinal points on the compass.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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