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BMAONE23 wrote:WOW 10mm (4") of Ice build-up from one storm? isn't that how galciers are born?

Ann wrote:How are you doing in the United States and Canada? I heard something about some very strange and partly terrible weather there.

rstevenson wrote:Update...

Seven days on there are still about 23,000 customers without power in Toronto, and more elsewhere. One startling statistic: Toronto has lost about 20% of its tree canopy to the ice -- a fact which is, of course, connected to the extensive power outage. If there weren't so many nice old trees hanging over the power lines, there wouldn't have been so many lines coming down in the storm. But the real problem is that the lines are almost all above ground. In newer subdivisions power lines are below ground, but most of the city's power grid is exposed to the elements.

Rob

geckzilla wrote:The shoveling is done and my fingers are warm but I'm finding it funny at how much resistance my keyboard keys are offering my fingers. Tired! :D

geckzilla wrote:Haha, at least with all the open space you have plenty of room to put the snow. I was picking each shovel full of snow up and walking ten feet over to dump it in the garden between the paths leading to the houses.

• The Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 4

• King Richard II Act 1, Scene 3

• By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
  Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
  By bare imagination of a feast?
  Or wallow naked in December snow
  By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?

• Act 4, Scene 1

• Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
  To melt myself away in water-drops!

geckzilla wrote:
Days like that you just wanna dig a little rut under a bush and cover your forearms in special saliva.

• Not that it would save you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawekaweau wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF][size=135]Hoplodactylus delcourti of Marseille[/size][/color][/b]

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<<The kawekaweau or Delcourt's giant gecko, Hoplodactylus delcourti, was by far the largest of all geckos with a snout-to-vent length of 37 cm and an overall length of at least 60 cm. It was endemic to New Zealand, and is now believed to be extinct.

In 1870, a Māori chief killed a kawekaweau he found under the bark of a dead rata tree in the forests of the Waimana Valley. This is the only documented report of anyone ever seeing one of these animals alive. He described it as being "brownish with reddish stripes and as thick as a man's wrist". A single stuffed museum specimen was "discovered" forgotten in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Marseille by French museum worker Alain Delcourt in 1986; however, the origins and date of collection of the specimen remain a mystery, as when it was found, it was not labelled. Scientists examining it eventually concluded it was from New Zealand and was in fact the lost "kawekaweau", a giant and mysterious forest lizard of Maori oral tradition.>>

neufer wrote:

• The Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 4

AUTOLYCUS: Lawn as white as driven snow;
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• King Richard II Act 1, Scene 3

HENRY BOLINGBROKE: O, who can hold a fire in his hand

• By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
  Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
  By bare imagination of a feast?
  Or wallow naked in December snow
  By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?

• Act 4, Scene 1

KING RICHARD II: O that I were a mockery king of snow,

• Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
  To melt myself away in water-drops!

geckzilla wrote:Days like that you just wanna dig a little rut under a bush and cover your forearms in special saliva.