[SOC] Let it snow......

Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:52:20 +0000

Mon Ami Claude:
   5cm of snow?!?!?!?  Paris shut down?!?!?!?  Claude, Claude, Claude....  
Up here where I live, anything less than 15cm is considered a "light 
dusting" and hardly worth mentioning. Now 30cm of snow is considered a 
decent snowfall.  If we get a good Nor'Easter off of Lake Huron, and 
conditions are just right, I have seen us get around 50cm during a 12 hour 
period.  That coupled with a good 60km/hr wind makes it drift up real nice!  
Now THAT is a snow storm!!!

BTW, the winter up here has been VERY mild so far, hardly any snow.  But the 
real "snow season" is in about 2 weeks or so.  Then we will get our snow.

Dennis - WB0WAO
(Up in the "Great White North" - EN84ij)

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>From: f5pbl <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: SOC ML <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [SOC] [OT] Temperatures
>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:44:32 +0100
>
>Hello Ian,
>
>Saturday, December 21, 2002, 3:13:43 AM, you wrote:
>
>Ian> +10�C / 50�F
>Ian> The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.
>
>Official temp for central heating switch on in buildings is in fact
>+ 17�C/62.6� F
>
>Ian> +5�C / 41�F
>Ian> Italian cars won't start.
>
>But Ladas & Trabis are still wonderful toys.
>
>Ian> -5�C / 23�F
>
>French trains start to have problems. Switching points may be frozen
>bcoz gaz bottles (warming system) have not been switched on.
>If some snow has fallen during the night, let's say 5 cm/2 in., then
>roads and highways around Paris are generating huge traffic jams.
>Main Paris airports may be closed bcoz the Cleanning Teams are blocked
>in the traffic jams. Vy SOC but 100% true : it happened 2 years ago !
>Both Orly and CDG during 4-5 hours were closed bcoz of 5 cm snow fallen
>during the night, the guys coming with cars were in the jams - +-200
>km jams around Paris.
>Flights were diverted to Lyon, Bruxels, London and Geneva, which was
>also under the snow (more snow) but ... well ... HB9 knows how to deal
>with snow !
>
>Ian> -40�C / -40�F
>Ian> Paris starts cracking in the cold.
>
>Oh Boy, I wish I could see that. -40C in Paris, dream, dream !
>"Natural selection" would then take place here too ...
>
>Ian> -50�C / -58�F
>Ian> Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.
>
>Welcome in Paris !
>
>Ian> -183�C / -297.4�F
>Ian> Microbes in food don't survive.
>
>Do you mean that we won't get cheese anymore ?! ;o((
>
>Ian> -273�C / -459.4�F
>Ian> ALL atomic and subatomic particle movement halts.
>
>Now, that IS good news !
>
>Ian> -300�C / -508�F
>Ian> Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest
>
>Ian, pse read the rules once agn. A jury can not vote of own country.
>Norway being the only contester, Norway will totalize 0 pt.
>Can we say they are the winner ?
>
>But do not forget that Polar Bears are now in Paris. They may enter
>the contest, singing some ad/commercial for C.C. (beurk) and _may_ win
>the SOC place (2nd place).
>
>72!
>Claude
>
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