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Re: Holy time-zone differences, Batman!
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:57:40 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner writes:

Right now, temperature has risen to about 0°C, which means that the
roads are extremely slippery.  Imagine a layer of ice all over the road,
with a thin layer of water on top of that.  Walking is much slower on a
sruface like that, if you can even get where you want!  I don't know
about driving, as all my cars are made of LEGO.  (See, this isn't
off-topic at all!  :-)

Kinda reminds me of the weather we've had around Washington, DC for the past
two weeks:  major ice storms!  Over the weekend, about 250,000 people lost
power because of downed powerlines and exploding transformers.  Lemme tell ya,
it's a real pain to build with Legos by Flashlight!  On the upside, I love the
cold, probably because I'm about 40% Norweigan.  ;)

Jeff



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(...) The weather here in West MI is pretty sucky -- it's supposed to be consistently in the high 30's and low 40's for next several days. In the first two weeks of this month, we got a decent amount of snow (more than we've had in years), and now (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Make that early in the morning! I'm usually not even out of my bed this early. I bet the differences in temperature/climate are interesting as well. In Oslo, we've had a week's period with -10°C so far this year, which is pretty much the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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