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    Quote Originally Posted by koØm View Post
    Regional Rhetoric


    I don't know where you reside but, where I live, around this time of year, the local weather-caster/Meteorologist start up with this "White Christmas" weather forecast bull crap.

    Let me tell you why, "The White Christmas" dream is really a nightmare.

    A few years back, we had a snowfall leading up to and on X-mas Day covering the Mid-west, the Middle Atlantic states, East Coast and, New England; Air Traffic was snarled with countless delays and canceled flights.

    Driving to see relatives locally was almost like being on a Billiards Table with hundreds of accidents and fender-benders.

    Do they dream of "White Christmas" in Southern California, Arizona, Florida?

    Does Europe give a flop about Bing Crosby, the movie named, "Holiday Inn" or that song, "Dreaming of a White Christmas"?

    I've now found it best, when I watch the local news programs, to MUTE the weather forecaster on my favorite channel; all she does is drone on over and over about numbers that are self-explanatory on the TV screen and, she throws the 'White Christmas' crap in there.

    /click mute

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    Well, figure it like this. The song "White Christmas" was written to romanticize the times long before there were airports, air travel, cars, etc. Travel in winter involved hitching the horses to the sleigh and then traveling down the road to the neighboring farm where you go together with a few locals to celebrate the holiday. (or for non-Cheechakos maybe hitching the dog team to the sled or putting on the snow shoes and walking). Of course those folks who lived then probably considered it a PITA to travel through snow as well. But it's human nature to romanticize things when we look into that mirror to the past.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    If we get once every 10 - 15 year a snowed day on Christmas we can be happy.
    Just ad our first dusting and till after 31st December temps are back up to 7 -11 C... at 53N ... but sea climate.
    Nope i don't do Xmas what became the eat all you can and spend all you can fake fest i cannot care about.
    I rather see a mild winter which saves on heating costs, but we can get brutal winters here.
    We'll see what January/February will bring if we get an early SSW we can get hit bad.
    all is pointing to that, so having 4 new all weather tires under the new car might have been a good idea.
    Same basic patterns here. Often we get very cold weather in November and early December. Then as we get close to winter and Christmastime things tend to warm up considerably for anywhere from at least a week to a month before we see a return to something that once again resembles winter weather. Although there are occaisional exceptions. Like a few years when it stayed cold and snowy from November till April. Most of the time however we rarely see a white Xmas.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Same basic patterns here. Often we get very cold weather in November and early December. Then as we get close to winter and Christmastime things tend to warm up considerably for anywhere from at least a week to a month before we see a return to something that once again resembles winter weather. Although there are occaisional exceptions. Like a few years when it stayed cold and snowy from November till April. Most of the time however we rarely see a white Xmas.
    You have a much better chance than I do of a white christmas. Here in Georgia it is almost always a wet christmas....


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    I did a load of bleachables today, that is white as I will get spending my first 4th, 5th Christmas in Fla. I am getting a nice tan riding around on the Harley down here. I am not the big white guy much these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Well, figure it like this. The song "White Christmas" was written to romanticize the times long before there were airports, air travel, cars, etc. Travel in winter involved hitching the horses to the sleigh and then traveling down the road to the neighboring farm where you go together with a few locals to celebrate the holiday. (or for non-Cheechakos maybe hitching the dog team to the sled or putting on the snow shoes and walking). Of course those folks who lived then probably considered it a PITA to travel through snow as well. But it's human nature to romanticize things when we look into that mirror to the past.
    The song "White Christmas" was written by Irving Berlin in 1942.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KC2KFC View Post
    The song "White Christmas" was written by Irving Berlin in 1942.
    Yeah, I know that. True it was written by Berlin in modern times. But it was written with the idea of bringing forth imagery and a sense of Christmases of old (pre- 20th century Christmases) particularly in rural areas where you just might need to hitch the horse to the sleigh if you planned to travel. The song may be fairly modern but the sentiments of the song take us to a snow covered landscape in days long gone.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Yeah, I know that. True it was written by Berlin in modern times. But it was written with the idea of bringing forth imagery and a sense of Christmases of old (pre- 20th century Christmases) particularly in rural areas where you just might need to hitch the horse to the sleigh if you planned to travel. The song may be fairly modern but the sentiments of the song take us to a snow covered landscape in days long gone.
    Because it was easier to pull a sleigh through snow that a wagon through mud. It also gave everyone a sense and look of cleanliness vs being covered in mud up to your hip and there was no telling how much actual shit was in that mud.

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    We just came through one of the worst but briefest windstorms since 2006.On Dec. 20 the storm clocked at some locations at 145 km per hour left 330,000 households on Vancouver Island and on the lower Mainland of BC without power.I lost power for 12 hours and there are some people who will still be in the dark through Christmas! A lot of fallen trees have done incredible damage to the power infrastructure on Vancouver Island......and 0% chance for a white Christmas which really is a good thing!

    Merry Christmas to all!
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    Sun is out, 7 C till at least 4th of January rising to 9 C.
    Green Xmas it is then,( AGAIN AS USUAL)
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