My husband does that thing where he will say it won't snow because 'it's too cold' which i've never really understood. How can it be too cold to snow when the Antarctic is ten times colder than Britain but you can't move for snow there?Being sat on the South Coast, we don't usually get much snow here but yesterday evening it fell out the sky and carried on falling all night and most of today. Cue people moaning and groaning about how dreadful all this white stuff is as schools closed, businesses shut and only those with 4 wheel drive were brave enough to venture out on the roads.
Being British, we can moan about anything, even about how much we moan like i'm moaning about now, but i love this weather and unless you are trapped in your car on the A23 with just a box of Jaffa Cakes, i struggle to see how anyone can moan about it.
The kids get a day off school, most of us got the day off work or at least got to nick off early and everything looks clean and beautiful.
I say stop whinging, forget you are a responsible adult and put on the scarf and gloves then get outside and throw a few snowballs, build a snowman and enjoy it.
Soon it will be summer and you will be sunburned, sitting in a sweltering hot office with buzzing things forming an orderly queue to bite and sting your legs so make the most of it.
And stop moaning, at least you have Jaffa Cakes.
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Lucy, British people should live in Edmonton, in Canada, as I did for three years. There is deep snow for almost eight months and temperatures that get down to 40 below zero.
Now that is something to whinge about but I never did because it was so beautiful!
We could moan about anything David. People were moaning that it never snowed just before it snowed. Never happy.
sounds like we get snow more often in San Antonio, Texas than yawl do in london...
i don't think of brits as whiners... the french come to mind instead...
q
I always think of Texas as stonkingly hot with no snow.
I'm about 50 miles from London on the south coast, about a 10 min walk from the sea front so we hardly ever get snow this close to the coast. London gets it quite a bit as it is more inland.
I'm loving it in South London :)
I've got two friends though, who've each tried to escape elsewhere during the last few days, one to Prague and one to Berlin, and they both sat in an airport for over 10 hours before being sent home, so I can understand them not sharing in my joy.
lucy,
texas - being as big as France - is actually very diverse geographically and climate wise.
north texas (panhandle) has flat rolling hills covered with a thick grass (the grassy plains). windy year round. hot hot in summer. cold cold in winter. dry year round.
amarillo is in north texas (panhandle).
dallas/ft worth is situated between north texas, central texas, and east texas.
east texas is rolling hills and piney woods with occasional swamps. steamy hot in the summer with 60 inches of rain each year. cold in the winter with snow in a typical year.
the gulf coast. flat, grassy land with sandy soil, dry one year, flooded the next year (hurricanes).
houston is situated between east texas and the gulf coast.
south texas is generally flat land. dry for a few years in a row then wet for a few years in a row - very cyclical (El Nino). generally hot hot in summer and mild winters with occasional cold years (like this year).
laredo is in south texas.
central texas is also known as the hill country. hilly, very rocky, oak trees, some maple trees, cypress trees along the many small crystal clear rivers, several large lakes as well.
austin is in central texas.
san antonio is situated between south texas and central texas.
west texas is desert. dry year round - 5 inches of rain a year. windy year round. hot hot hot in the summer. cold cold cold in the winter.
in west texas you also find mountains including the guadalupe mountains and chisos mountains (big bend national park).
el paso is in west texas - far west...
q
George Bush comes from Texas. Say no more!
david,
you gotta take the bad with the good...
janis joplin, walter cronkite, willie nelson, LBJ, sandra day o'conor, dan rather, tommy lee jones, and gene roddenberry are from texas...
so it looks like you're right for a change, a lot of trouble does come outta texas...
but then we make up for those weird lefties with dwight d eisenhower, gene autry, buddy holly, audie murphy, howard hughes, chester nimitz, bonnie parker, and W...
q
My nomination for Greatest Texan Ever: Bill Hicks.
wait, i thought janis joplin was a worthless druggie, q?
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