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Jan 2, 2007 15:59:59 GMT -5
Post by John Parry on Jan 2, 2007 15:59:59 GMT -5
Hope everyone was OK after those snowstorms in the States. Most of our New Year firework displays were cancelled because of the wind and torrential rain. Even (horror!) some football games were abandoned or postponed because of it.
Happy New Year everyone anyway!!
Regards - John
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k38
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Jan 2, 2007 16:36:25 GMT -5
Post by k38 on Jan 2, 2007 16:36:25 GMT -5
Even (horror!) some football games were abandoned or postponed because of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think we only abandon football games for lightning or the Second Coming! Of course our guys have a bit more padding on :-)
Happy, Happy,
Dwight
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Jan 2, 2007 16:49:15 GMT -5
Post by herron on Jan 2, 2007 16:49:15 GMT -5
The folks way west of us living in Michigan hogged all the snow for themselves (and I only wanted about 1/2 inch to make the ground white on Christmas...other than that they were welcome to it)! It was 51°F here on New Years Day! For one of your football (soccer) games to be cancelled, the field must have been flooded so badly either (1) the ball was floating, or (2) you could not see the lines! Even we Americans play (soccer) in the snow, as long as we can see the lines. America football, on the other hand, doesn't care. They can always measure distance with sticks and strings from the sideline, and incremental distance is important to our blokes. Besides, as Dwight says, they have all that padding to keep them warm and dry!
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Jan 2, 2007 19:32:07 GMT -5
Post by Randy on Jan 2, 2007 19:32:07 GMT -5
Christmas weekend it was gloomy, rainy, and dark...not the best weather for photography. New Years weekend...same crappy weather, but let me go back to work today...and the friggin sun is shining! There just isn't any justice anymore. I have observed that everytime NASA puts up the Space Shuttle the weather gets weird.
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Jan 3, 2007 10:45:04 GMT -5
Post by SidW on Jan 3, 2007 10:45:04 GMT -5
... I think we only abandon football games for lightning or the Second Coming! Of course our guys have a bit more padding on :-) I suspect British football is cancelled to save the turf, not the players
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Jan 3, 2007 19:51:48 GMT -5
Post by unclebill on Jan 3, 2007 19:51:48 GMT -5
Toronto has not had winter yet and today the daytime high was in around +5c with a forcast for rain on Saturday and a high of +10c. I ski, I want some winterwonderland shots, I am not going to get them unless I go down to Colorado or Kansas. Winter will show up sooner or later.
Bill
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Jan 3, 2007 21:16:30 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Jan 3, 2007 21:16:30 GMT -5
Hi Bill,
No need to go down south for snow. Head north from Toronto to Timmins. I was there one February quite a few years ago and there was plenty of snow. Not much in the way of hills to ski down, as I remember, but lots of people had snowmobiles, rather like motorcycles on skis. Can't remembernow how they got their traction. I tried one, and fell off cornering in about three feet of soft snow. Nothing hurt except my dignity, but it took three of us ages to get the thing back upright in the deep snow. We were all laughing too much!
Daytime in the sunshine was very pleasant if there was no wind, but at night the temperature went down to minus 42 degrees C. I was there covering cold-start trials with Leyland Trucks, so our 'working day' was from about 2 am to 5 am, and it was bl@@dy cold!
A few of the other journalists had battery dependent SLRs, and their batteries failed after about half an hour in those temperatures. I was forewarned, and got the old T&OE company in London to 'winterise' a mechanical Kiev 4A for me on the reasoning that if it worked in northern Russia in the winter it would work in northern Canada. It never missed a beat despite the low temperatures. A few years later it performed equally well in the mid-day heat in the Sahara. I can't give a better recommendation that that.
PeterW
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