Re: [OM] OT: Snow, graves and a poet

[Chuck Norcutt]

And I was in Germany freezing my tail off as the Rhine froze over.  That 
was the first time since 1917.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/8/2012 8:58 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> I was in in *Bordeaux* that winter...
>
> heating with a pot-belly stove.
>
> Not a good thing.
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian Swale<bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote
>>
>>> You call it climate change because you think it's unprecedented.  You're
>>> simply not old enough to remember the "Big Freeze of 1963".  :-)
>>> <
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%931963_in_the_United_Ki
>>> ngdom
>>
>> I was there then. Snow on the ground for a (perhaps) unprecedented 50
>> consecutive days in Oxford. Keeping warm was a major exercise.
>>
>> The city was using mains electricity to thaw frozen waterpipes.
>>
>> Brian Swale.
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