Tim, Washington, DC is a very southern city - think of Rome maybe. 30+ years ago, friends from the Midwest (hardy Iowa natives) moved there for a time. These folks were raised with snowstorms and snow on the ground in winter. A 6 inch snowfall was nothing. People shoveled their walks, drove to work, the kids went to school. The temperatures dropped to -20 C and still it was no problems.
When they moved to Washington, DC, they had a 2 inch snowfall. Our Iowa friends thought nothing of it. Got in their car and drove off to work. The Policeman stopped them. "Sir, don't you know there is a snow emergency in effect. You cannot be out driving in this without studded snow tires!" My friend - 'But we drive in this all the time in Iowa.' "Well not here sir, go back home now." My friend said the local drivers had no idea how to drive on snow and caused many accidents because of it. In addition, the city had no snow removal or sanding equipment either. Their strategy was to wait for it to melt! Regards, Bob S. On 1/22/07, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why close a school because of two inches? To make sure the kids don't have > fun in the schoolyard? > > I have good news today. Now we have about four inches here, and it is still > snowing. It feels good, mainly because it makes me relax a bit about the > world climate (don't get me wrong I'm still worried). But also because the > reflections from the snow gives more light. We will not see the sun here > until the 12th of February. With no snow, it becomes very dark at this time > of year. About a third of the population suffers from light depressions > because of this. Lack of daylight affects the chemistry of the brain, the > experts tell us. Don't know if it's true, but it sure feels true to me. > > But, right now, that does not matter. Now it is snowing :-) > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Beaker > Sent: 22. januar 2007 04:48 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Peso - My own HDR > > Tim- > > You should come to Washington DC for a snow. Flurries make people > nervous. An inch will cause a run on toilet paper and milk. 2 inches > make officials talk about closing school. 6 inches will close the > city... > > Well, that may be a little exaggerated, but it can get pretty > comical. And they have gotten better about snow removal in recent years. > > Cheers > Beaker > > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > > > I'm sorry to say, that's not snow. That's just a handful of ice > > crystals ;-) > > Seriously. We don't call snow unless it is an inch of the stuff, or > > at least > > the ground is cowered in white. > > > > This said. I can imagine you being excited by the sight :-) > > > > > > Tim > > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Gonz > > Sent: 17. januar 2007 04:30 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Peso - My own HDR > > > > Had a nice and rare subject: snow in Texas (not north). Thought I > > would > > take advantage of that to give HDR a try: > > > > http://www.g0nz.com/picgallery/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=0 > > > > > > If you click on the thumbnail version you get the bigger version. For > > those on slower connections, the big version is about 600K bytes > > unfortunately, I forgot to lower the quality during the JPG > > conversion. > > > > > > Thanks for looking, > > > > rg > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
