Re: Kaimanawa Wall once again...
From: Peter Ashby (pashby_at_blueyonder.co.ruk)
Date: 09/06/04
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:49:21 GMT
Terry Hollis <nospam@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> zolota wrote:
>
> > There was an event in Ottawa, Canada's capital, where a man got off a
> > bus in the winter and froze to death trying to cross a vacant block
> > to his home. There was a snowstorm and he lost his way. (A path in
> > snow is a hard object about 30 cm wide, step off it and you are
> > floundering in deep snow). An even worse story is of an old woman
> > who last winter fell on a busy street at night and froze to death in
> > a snowbank. People passed her for two days without inspecting the
> > fabric that stuck out of the snow.
>
> You are getting a bit off the track here; the Kaimanawa stone (I think it is
> pushing it to call it a wall) can be seen without leaving your car; if you
> want to get technical you can make a closer inspection by walking 10 metres.
And even in the dead of winter Yuri you will have less chance of
freezing to death than if you left your abode in Toronto (in winter).
Peter
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