WEATHER

-6 this morning.
Tom

There's a benefit to living approx 210m above sea level in Sheffield.

I hope none of you are (badly) affected by the weather.

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Is everyone okay in the USA and Canada? Tom, you are quite up north right? I hear about a polar vortex and other Day After Tomorrow-like stuff. I'm sure it's not that bad but minus 40 (celcius) windchill is insane (except if you have fjords to look at).

Thanks for clarifying.

Still below zero, although a bit warmer today in the sun.
Tom

The snow is coming down in SPADES here right now, and with -10 C, it's not gonig away anytime soon. I've had to shovel my way out of our building's driveway today. That's a first.

It's like 100 cm here now. Fuck that!

And now I wake up this morning, here in the beautiful city of Zamunda... I mean, Panama City, Florida, and it fucking snowed last night.

I've been here for a little over a decade, on/off, andwe had some light flurries that resembled snow, but this was snow. I'm talking walking on the grass and hearing it crunch like gravel; the ground litterally white in ice balls; my car's body impacted with a hard surface of ince balls; my widnshield caked on with it, with a pile of snow on the wiper blades; icesicles hanging from the roof where I'm at.

It's a Goddamn winter wonderland over here. I had to take pictures to memorialze it.


Of course, the history my country didn't begin with my birth, as some people sem to think it does with them, so I understand this isn't new. In fact, I'm researching and I see the lowest temperatures recorded in Florida were in the late 1800's, with -2 and -19. Yikes. Can you imagine that with wind chill factored in?
I was living in my car a few years ago when, with wind chill factorered in, it reached about ZERO. I would up some mornings like I was coming out of hibernation, like my body had been shutting down and killing me all night long.

It's also snowed in Florida before. Last year in certain cities, in 1977, and in the 1700's. That's not a full record, mind you.

Sorry, I've staked claim. ;-)

I don't know. I stopped watching local news probably a decade ago, as it offered nothing and was often littered with incorrect information and political stupidity.

I'm wondering if the roads are iced, particularly on the bridge. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those boneheads who gun it every chance they get, ran into other cars, spun tires, slide into things.

8 inches of snow today
Tom

Timmer,

half of southern Britain is flooded, storm rages at the coasts. Ar your feet still dry?

Volker

Very dry thank you

I live in hilly Bristol, even if it did flood ( which it used to in the lower levels of the city up until the 1960's ) I'm too high up for any flood water.

I have friends in some flooded areas in Somerset and though they're homes aren't affected like some, using transport is very limited. Like Edmund, some areas unaccessable and are un-passable without a boat.