Paula in't the only one with snow now!

[Len]

Yay, look at our mountain! :P

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11850270

The only downside is I'm sick with the flu and can't get out in it! We're suppost to get a blizzard for tues/wed...fingers crossed.  Anyone else lucky yet?

[Eimi]

No snow here, but we get 6+ earthquakes more often than snow...

It's snowing in Seattle, though, which means it might be another white christmas for me!  Of course, a white Christmas in Seattle isn't always a good thing... It means people stuck at home and unable to meet up for Christmas Eve...

[Suzee]

They had a particularly nasty storm up there in Washington State last week and my friend *whom I hope to convince to come to Triad* had a very scary experience.

I drove through a war zone! At least, that's what it felt like. Monday night, we had snow and violent winds. It took me from 4:30pm-10:00pm to get home from work. As I was driving home, the winds really picked up. The road was covered in debris from the forest that it passes through. Trees were falling everywhere and power lines were down. At one point, I had to drive UNDER a fallen power line. I also drove under a fallen tree, with the branches scraping across the top of my SUV. I counted at least eight huge 100 foot pine trees that had fallen.
 
Then, a tree fell. Right in front of my car, scraping the front of it. I had not time to stop and ended up somehow going over it, becoming AIRBORNE and landing on the other side of it at an angle. I screamed and froze. Some guy got out of his car, opened my door and said, "you need to keep driving, it's not safe here." There were branches flying. So I followed him and we made it into town where I pulled into a parking lot. He got out and came to my car to make sure I was okay. I was shaking like a leaf! My car STILL drives fine! Hurray for Mazda.
 
Eeeeeeee! I can still see that tree coming down in front of me.

[Eimi]

Suzee, that's because the weather knows I'm coming home for Christmas.  The last time I went back to Seattle for Christmas, there was a massive snow storm, buried the city in snow for two weeks, got stuck in the old folks home with grandma eating mac-and-cheese for Christmas.  Not that I'm complaining, I was happy to be there!  And the time before that, a massive windstorm hit Seattle, cut power to over a million people over the Northwest.  I think after this my friends are going to say "Stay in Japan, dang it!  Stop breaking Seattle!"

[Paula]

We don't have just snow, we have also frigging cold!  :cold:  I can't remember being this cold in November.. and we're breaking coldness recods all over country (-34 C in Lappland).

[Len]

Would that cold snap in Lapland explain Olli's finger, Paula?  Maybe he wasn't being a git, maybe it had frozen in that position? (being from Rovaniemi and all) ;-)

[Paula]

Maybe, since he doesn't even remember showing it...  :compress:

[Len]

So this was a a mirage then? :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coZFyqxn2U

My two and a half year old acts more mature than him.  :cyclopsani:

[emma]

At long last, here in the cold North West of England we have snow! Bad enoough that we were sat in the hotel in Prague watching BBC world news to see if the airports were open... Not a peep about Manchester, but they were showing the bad weather, then they said that the next nearest airports (Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool, Doncaster, East Midlands and Birmingham) were closed or had severe delays....  But we made it back.

Prague is a beautiful city, and th snow made it look even more stunning (except when we were avoiding a blizzard by hiding in Subway!).  The markets were great, and the shopping  - well to some extent we could have just gone to the Trafford Centre once we found M&S, Debenhams, Next, H&M.... Although we did to to C&A just because.

[Len]

Happy Chanukah, girl!

[emma]

Prague photos

[Len]

Love the cider with 'Cannabis vodka'!!!  :tongue:

Beautiful city...love the centre squares in European cities.  Cheers for the photos!  Maybe when I finially get to photograph THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az81uQBbjyw) we'll all get to see Prague.  :alien:

[Paula]

Well, we have even more snow now, about feet last night. And my hubby wrenched his back showeling it out from our yard, so I'm the one who has to clear it away now. :disgusted: Too much is too much.

[emma]

Well the next lot is supposed to be headed in from the west, so that means I'm going to get cold, and you might get it as well Len....

[Len]

When this one?  I thought they said we were going to get warmish by thurs!!!  Are you guys getting this nasty frost?  This is the first time since we moved here that I it's gotten into what is normally a frost pocket by our back door.  Just glad I brought my hardy orchid and an elm bonsai into the house just before it hit there.  The poor baby peas in the garden are just hanging on by the skin of their little leaves! >.<