Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays [was: Happy Holidays]

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Dec 24 09:03 , Steve Wiltsie, showing utter disregard for 
spell-checkers gave us this: 


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> > Sounds safer. Could be worse--I heard Indiana got 2.5 feet
> > in some areas, and they declared a state of emergency.
> > Personally, I find that ridiculous. I remember being a kid
> > and having the sidewalk from our front steps out to the main
> > right-of-way sidewalk and even that being 3.5 feet high with
> > snow on both sides and we -still- dug out. No whiny state
> > of emergency, etc. Just plain silly. "Oh my god! A flake of
> > snow! Call the governor!" People south of I-80 don't seem to
> > know how to handle winter weather worth $0.10.

> At least you weren't in some of the hundreds of cars and trucks
> that got stranded on the interstates and secondary roads in
> Indiana and northern Kentucky. It took up to 24 hours to get
> all of the people out of their vehicles and into a shelter.

That's why I live in FL.   About every three years the snow in the
front yard would be over 5 feet deep, most years it was three.

Then there were the inevitable roof collapses because of snow.

One day when the school bus from the next town had not arrived
everyone was worried.  Phone lines were down and the road was block
by a snowslide that was about 1/4 mile long and 300 feet deep.  The
concussion blew over a couple of houses and left only the floor
left.  The bus hadn't gotten as far as the slide, but people had to
climb over this new moutain of snow to be sure.

Of course homes being blown down happened to many here in Fl this
year when it was just rain and not snow. You can't hide from the
weather - at least here - as North America has the worst weather
conditions in the world because of the flow of currents in the
Atlantic.

So if you live in NA you are stuck with it.

And Ken said is is horribly hot this week where he is.
[That's the down-under Ken of course]

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com