Winter words…

The South doesn’t get much snow,   and we generally curse it when we do,  but perhaps  these quotations  will at least make you feel a little better.

That toddlin town…

Ain’t doing much right now,  but it’s  Chicago as  it should be — over seven inches of snow,  no flights,  no power — and probably fewer shootings than normal.   What a city…

 

Giraffes in the snow…

It does look a bit strange to see African  animals wandering  around in the snow, even though that area of Western Cape of South Africa does experience the occasional cold freak.   No word from the warming hysterics on snow storms there and elsewhere in the world in September…

 

 

 

If you must…

…live in Vladivostok,  Russia,  you really ought to obtain a vehicle equipped with winter tires and learn how to drive it.   Either that,  or find a way to avoid this  truly nasty hill.

 

Warming failure…

We are all doomed to roast to death according to  High Warming Priest Al Gore and his acolytes.   Except it has taken crews clearing the Lassen National Park Highway in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, nearly four months to handle the  snow load which had accumulated in the mountain pass.    The road will officially open next Thursday, which is the  latest opening ever  according to park logs which go back to 1931.   I presume modern equipment and crews are as efficient at the task as their predecessors were,  so shouldn’t global warming have sped the process up?

 

First snow!

There is nothing more adorable than a  puppy in snow  for the first time.

No sledding at Capitol…

This is the first,  and most likely will be the only time I have agreed with anything D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has proposed,  but the Capitol  should allow  sledding.   However,  I note that in her typical clueless fashion,  Norton seems unaware that Capitol Police are making no effort to arrest anyone participating in this forbidden act,  so in essence they are waiving the rule.

UPDATE:  Norton  finally catches  up.

 

Apple shatters…

The glass cube which functions as Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan had one of its 15 glass  panels shattered  during the snowstorm,  supposedly by an errant rock thrown by a snow-blower.   As a passerby commented,  now the company knows how its customers feel with they drop their Apples and watch the screens shatter,  but replacing this panel on The Cube will cost vastly more.

Animal snow day…

All the dogs I’ve owned have considered snow a fun new toy,  but none more so than my Border Collie,  who also loved to play with water from any source in any weather.   None of my cats have wanted anything to do with either the liquid or frozen forms.

These animals  plainly consider it a plaything,  and yes,  there is a Border Collie among them.

Nuclear snow…

No,  not the kind the Eco-Nazis are always screaming us.  Or more precisely,  a nuclear power plant seems to have  caused snowfall.