[lit-ideas] Re: Is it just me? (Ain't we got fun)
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:55:47 EST
Likewise, it's the other drivers that scare me here. I've been driving in
various places enough to know how to navigate snow, fish-tailing, and some
amount of ice. But as Missouri is not prone to these kinds of weather
situations often, there are many, many fearless people on the roads who cannot
come to
a stop. To give anyone interested an idea, Columbia has the same number of
snow-plows it had 15 years ago, though the population has tripled.
Julie Krueger
longing for NZ
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(Ain't we got fun) Date: 1/18/2007 3:36:38 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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For over two weeks now, David Ritchie and I have been quietly freezing
our metaphors off, struggling through three-inch snow drifts, and
drinking the last of the port, while nibbling the last of the walnuts.
Now, Paul Stone assures us that -7 C is balmy (although he may have
said barmy). But that's still cold for the Willamette Valley. The
coldest it got was -8. Seattle, too, has been cold and chaotic for a
fortnight, and they've had quite a bit more snow.
In the last couple of days there have been numerous sledding
accidents, two fatal, and enough fenders have been bent to create a
shortage of psychotherapists. A young man died when he fell through
the ice in a pond in Washington. Snow and ice makes people crazy here,
sometimes with sad results.
Today, though, it's warmed up to ca. 4 C., and there is an air
stagnation advisory. I may even take the car out. It's not the snow
I'm afraid of--it's my fellow citizens.
Robert Paul
watching it melt,
somewhere south of Reed College
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