Well, you did win "the ashes" !! - HoHoHo and Merry Xmas -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Lowe Sent: 21 December 2006 22:22 To: osg users Subject: RE: [osg-users] OT: US, Colorado, blizzard
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Robert Osfield > Sent: Friday, 22 December 2006 7:55 AM > To: osg users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] OT: US, Colorado, blizzard > > Hi Paul, > > On 12/21/06, Paul Martz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just FYI -- The state of Colorado is essentially shut down > today due > > to a blizzard. Attached, you can see the snowfall on my back porch, > > that's about > > 0.7 meters of snow in a 24 hour period. At the moment it's still > > snowing, but should let up in a couple hours. > > Can't compete with that! The best we've had so far is a few > frosty mornings... > > What have had is PLENTY of rain associated flooding right > here in Callander, having just had the wettest November on > record. The river was up about 2m higher than usual and > flooded up into the high street. > Luckily I live well away from the river and the hill side. Oh the joy to have rain and snow. Here in Melbourne, Australia, I've just ridden to work, it's 8.30am and already 30 degrees Celcius with a howling northerly blowing - I ride north to get to work :( Can't remember the last time we had decent rain, our water storages are down in the 35-40% capacity, an area about the size of Europe has been drought declared and we have a bush fire that has wiperd out 800,000 hectares of bushland and could easily get to well over 1,000,000 hectares, that's nearly 2,500,000 acres in old speak, before it is under control. When the wind blows right, visibility is down to 2km in Melbourne and we have more strong winds that will fan the fires forecast for the next couple of days. Have a look at this http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Dec2006/Australi a6_TMO_2006342_lrg.jpg to see the extent of the smoke plume - side to side this image covers about 900km. I suppose it's not all doom and gloom, we just caned the Poms again to regain the Ashes ;) Makes you wonder what we've done to this plant where you can get 700mm of snow in 24 hours at one point and massive bushfires and drought in another. Well, enough chit chat, back to work. Andrew _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/ _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
