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Posted by jbcardinale on 2009-02-02 17:28:19 +0000

Day The Snow Came - Britain Stopped

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/02/snow-brings-britain-travel-chaos

Facebook is chock full of pictures of London's snowy streets and snow people on Brighton Beach. When it snowed in Marseilles about a week ago the city said that they couldn't find the salt truck. I find this all funny.
Posted by MF DU on 2009-02-02 18:28:32 +0000
When I was 4 or 5 and we had moved from White Trashua to a suburb of Dallas / Fort Worth Texas area called Carrollton, a neighbor asked my dad what he planned to do with such an odd large oversized metal shovel in my Dad's garage.

My Dad <i>still</i> has fun telling this story.

Stuff always came to a standstill in Texas when it iced / snowed.

Good Stuff...
Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-02-02 19:35:41 +0000
I love seeing people unfamiliar with snow frolicking in it. That childlike excitement is heartwarming. At UNH I lived in the "international" dorm, and one of the highlights of the year was seeing the students from tropical climates react to the first snowstorm of the year. Kaz, a student from southern Japan, ran out into it, threw himself into a snowdrift, stayed there - rolling around - for about an hour, then came back inside covered in the stuff, shouting "SNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!"

A week later he wanted to know when winter would be over.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2009-02-02 23:52:40 +0000
Insert cocaine joke (here).
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