Re: OT, damned cold OT

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:38:07 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:44:44 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:44:55 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In article <45D4A761.997EB473@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eeyore wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

Rene Tschaggelar <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

They stole our winter. We're supposed to have winter,
but the temperatures are way above zero, no snow. We
currently have wheather as we'd have it in march & April.
- I haven't been skiiing yet in this winter.


The wind-chill in Ithaca, NY (where The Brat goes to school) was -12F
last night. Please take it back!

Errrr what's that in celsius ? Why do you guys even still use that ?
Damn cold obviously.

-12 F windchill in Ithaca? That sounds to me just a coolish day for
this time of year there, not especially cold! Heck, most winters
Philadelphia, even Washington DC gets windchill getting that cold. If
Philadelphia has a winter with worst windchill being -12 F, it's a mild
winter!

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)

Cornell canceled classes one day last week, because it was too
dangerous to be outdoors. So naturally The Brat went sledding with her
friends.

John

I can remember around 1960, a storm so bad in Cambridge/Boston.
everything shut down, buses, subways, everything.

So we walked several miles down the middle of thoroughfares,
completely devoid of cars, to a party in Central Square ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Reminds me of New Orleans in the week or so after the eye of Betsy
passed directly overhead. The streets were layered with six feet of
oak tree limbs, power lines, and stuff ripped off houses. The first
thing people did was to clear a footpath in tbe middle of each street.
I had a Honda 50 motorcycle, so I ran around visiting people and
carrying messages. It was a couple of weeks before cars could drive
around uptown.

Speaking of disasters, we had a pretty good earthquake jolt yesterday.
Some people thought a truck had smacked into the building... it was
one big shove. I'm sure glad we put in all that steel.

John

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