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2010-12-19 Science & Technology

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-12-19 04:46|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Brrrr

Posted by abu do you love 2010-12-19 06:16|| 2010-12-19 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 That's NOT a lot of snow, or cold, by most American's or Canadian's reckoning. Man up, fer crissakes.

Maybe all the descendants of the folks who survived the Little Ice Age emigrated to North America?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-12-19 06:57|| 2010-12-19 06:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Here is a funny one, found elsewhere.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-19 08:54|| 2010-12-19 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 From the comments:

It was much much worse than it looks

I spent 2 days trying to get home by air from Heathrow. I had 3 flights booked, rebooked, cancelled and was driven about 40km each way in heavy snow to spend the 1st night in a hotel. I was one of the lucky few who actually got a bed to sleep in. By the end of the 2nd day I gave in and travelled into central London to take the train home. That journey took almost 7 hours, about 2 hours longer than usual, because of frozen tracks, brakes, doors ....even toilets! Again I was lucky that was an option for me. A friend from Europe had to take 2 trains, a ferry and then another train. It was bad!

Posted by gorb 2010-12-19 09:38|| 2010-12-19 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 That's NOT a lot of snow, or cold, by most American's or Canadian's reckoning. Man up, fer crissakes.
Posted by: no mo uro

Remember a lot of those place aren't equipped to deal with snow either. In the southern US, you see a couple of flakes of snow and everything shuts down since there are no snowplows, no extra insulation on buildings, etc.

But, where I grew up that is considered a "light" snow. In fact, anything under a foot is a business-as-usual snow.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-19 10:09|| 2010-12-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 That's why I live in God's country. ;-)

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-12-19 10:18|| 2010-12-19 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 The weather is extra disabling because

- the cold has lasted quite a while
- December is usually not Britain's coldest month

Feb 2009 and Jan 2010 had big snowstorms in Britain.

Posted by Lord Garth 2010-12-19 10:21|| 2010-12-19 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Gee, could all that "global warming" have something to do with this?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-19 11:42|| 2010-12-19 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember a lot of those place aren't equipped to deal with snow either.

Nope. Two weeks trapped in Milan in the 80s trying to get out. Spent the time teaching schoolkids how to throw the perfect snowball.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-19 12:01|| 2010-12-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Spent the time teaching schoolkids how to throw the perfect snowball.

Dja teach them a snowball with a rock core aids in aimng?

Posted by badanov 2010-12-19 12:20|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-12-19 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Snow? That's not snow, you can still see the curbs.

Posted by Flapper Scourge of the Al gonquins 2010-12-19 13:34|| 2010-12-19 13:34|| Front Page Top

#12 That's why I live in God's country. ;-)

You live in Texas too?

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2010-12-19 16:57|| 2010-12-19 16:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Dja teach them a snowball with a rock core aids in aimng?

Nah. Just the traditional hard-packed "base-a-ball" version.

Which still didn't go over well with drivers and adults in general.

Posted by Pappy 2010-12-19 17:36|| 2010-12-19 17:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Since most MSM-NET = GW Perts are predicting POWERFUL SOLAR STORMS to still occur post-2012, IMO the UK including Ireland are more at risk from RISING SEA LEVELS = TIDAL + WAVE FORCES/ACTIONS.

Most likely also STORMY since the ABOVE PERTS are also forecasting STRONGER, BIGGER + MORE POWERFUL OCEANIC STORMS TO OCCUR AS THE SUN GETS HOTTER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-19 20:43|| 2010-12-19 20:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Not counting the spectre of MILTERR THREATS agz the UK Royal Family as per Jedi Master Yoda's "Begun, the Euro Jihad, Has".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-19 20:45|| 2010-12-19 20:45|| Front Page Top

#16 2010 Snow catastrophe
1980 Winter

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