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Originally Posted by pshrynk
10 cm is a light snow day here. Not even enough to close the schools...
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yep, that is what they told me.
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Originally Posted by Verencat
Allow me to scoff also! Your 10 cm is about 5% of what we had last year! In the park near my house, there was about 1 meter of snow for months! AND it never closed (closing parks???? That's just cruel!).
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so i hear.
about the parks, actually, unless i'm mistaken, it's a recent thing, they only started doing that after the really big windstorm of... 1999 ?? i think (i'm pretty sure, only because i remember my bathroom was flooding from the rain pouring through the gaping hole that was left after the wind tore the skylight off, while i was trying to get ready to go to a party for new year's eve, and i'm *pretty* sure it was the 2000 party. i remember that one because there was a theme) anyway my point is, we had a really violent storm which uprooted half the trees of the country and tore rooves off houses and i think somebody got coshed on the head by a tree branch in a park and died, and ever since then when the weather gets bad (well... "bad" is subjective, obviously) they close them. i could be remembering this wrong, but i'm pretty sure that's what happened.
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Here's a piccie of a typical winter day here; that explains why I love the first months of winter and also why I scream at the sky when february comes.
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oh, believe me, by february i am screaming too, and i can still see the ground around here. another québécois was telling me how he had FIVE HUNDRED CENTIMETERS of snow all winter !!!!! he posted a photo that supposedly was his brother's house. but you just had to take his word for that because the alleged house was litterally invisible, completely buried up to the roof in snow. for all i know, there was no house at all.
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I think I might speak for many of the men on here; I already resent that guy. He's setting the bar way too high for the rest of us |
pfff. if that's the case, some of you could use a new bar. i hope you're taking notes.
as for myself, i am currently marvelling that the Page of The Beast is so calm and civilised. it doesn't seem like the end of the world at all in here. maybe i've misunderstood how that's supposed to work.