Food for thought

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Food for thought

· Posted: 08.01.2013 · #1

Just to brighten up your morning ... in 1947 January was exactly the same as this, damp and mild. At the end of January it ended up the worst winter on record with months of snow and ice.

Happy 2013

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Re: Food for thought

· Posted: 08.01.2013 · #2

Wheres my snow shovel...

I think we're in the minority in that we actually enjoy the extreme weather (cold, ice, snow etc)... I guess we're the kind of folks that try to be as prepared as possible... None of that crazy "doomsday preppers" kind of prepared, but enough measures in place that we can get by for a good spell without external services.

Always popular with our neighbours too when they realise they're NOT prepared for extreme events, but thats life and we're glad to help...

The worst thing that happened to us a few years ago when the -11c temps hit (with savage ice and drifting snow etc) was when the local broadband transmitter on the adjacent hill fell over after an accumulation of ice built up on the mast.

No internet in the house for a week!, OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can take all this rain and grey skies and sell it to the arabs... Bring on the snow.

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Re: Food for thought

· Posted: 08.01.2013 · #3

Hmm, you sound like me a few years ago. I loved the snow and looked forward to it.

But after those two bad winters where it reached -18 here on Christmas day and seemed to go on forever & forever I don't want it back again!

We had frozen pipes in the old bar on one Christmas day, I was mopping up water, fixing taps and pipes and breaking blocks of urine ice, we had rented a room to a taxi company and instead of letting us know the toilets had frozen they carried on peeing in the urinals, which of course froze over so much that we had urine icicles.

Also stuck at home as we couldn't get any vehicle out. Spent a small fortune on heating and it was too cold to build anything. Not an enjoyable time

I posted this ages ago but still find it amazing, Christmas day 2011 it was 28 degree's warmer than it was on the previous Christmas -18 followed by +10

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Re: Food for thought

· Posted: 08.01.2013 · #4

If theres snow and ice coming hopefully it will be after the kilkenny weekend

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