And here I thought having 19C degree winter days and 9Cdegree winter nights, that it was Freezing !

Your floods in UK made the news here BTW. Hope you guys werent too affected.

And Im sorry about your heat waves in Texas!

and for the poor bunny.

Nice to know we are all being fried, fozen or ...prostrated right now thanks to the weather!


ANyone ever thought of making a hazmat suit a fashion item lately?

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Originally posted by imaqtz And here I thought having 19C degree winter days and 9Cdegree winter nights, that it was Freezing ! Your floods in UK made the news here BTW. Hope you guys werent too affected.

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I'm sorry. Actually, I'd let ya'll KEEP both of them (heck, you can have ALL the stinkin' celebrities) if I could.

Yeeesh. Twisters (smaller tornados, despite the movie description) as well? Next thing you need should be...an earthquake. Yep. So...put all your fragile stuff on the floor.

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One of the earthquakes I was in -- in Ottawa in early 1980's, 4.5 I think -- was in the middle of the night. Dad thought the big propane tanks a mile away at the depot had blown and got us all ready to run.

Southern Ontario, we have to be ready for most of it. Summer days can reach 35/95 and humid. And a week later in the high teens. 10 deg C / 16 deg F range between waking up and noon hour, so the kids are tempted to go to school with jackets and then get heat stroke. And then a couple of 20 cm snow storms in the winter, temps below -20C/-4 at morning bus stop. Last year it was so rainy the crops wouldn't grow, the year before it was so dry the rivers were drying up. Class 5 tornado out of no where a few years ago. Out east, though, it's a lot worse -- same temperatures but viscious snow.

Fortunately, it's cold enough for long enough that most places have good insulation and proper central heating. And it's hot enough for long enough that all the malls and busses and health clubs (and all but the oldest of school buildings) have air conditioning.

Oh, and the smog. Half of what we get here we're told is from the states, which of course leads some to give up on their own efforts. I'm the only one on the block who ever uses a solar clothes dryer, and only two of us have push-mowers. Then again, I tend to drive to distant parks (the ones near the river), so I guess it evens out.

But I think I'll stay. I'm rather fond of it all.

Cricket

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It's pretty accurate, I'd say. I'd have to look and compare regulations on cars and stuff. We might have higher regulations, but there are definitely more here. I think the true problem with smog in the States is that it isn't considered a real problem yet. *sigh*

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