Weather

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I just heard that it snowed in Rome, hard enough to stop some twenty flights from Fiumicino airport. This is astonishing. Rome has the mildest climate in the whole country, and a heavy snowfall is more unlikely there than in much of Sicily. This shows what an astonishing weather event we are actually having.

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[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

I saw the pics of London covered in snow last night--Michigan on the Thames! lol What really made me go D: though, was when the reporter mentioned that the city of London has no snow-removal equipment. That would suck, and I feel for you.

Although I have to admit over here I can tolerate giant snowdrifts and such more than the -10^o than we've had for most of January. I hope it hasn't gotten that cold over there for you.

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I spent a good deal of my childhood on the Alps, and the rest in Milan, which in winter is colder than London. I quite like cold weather. What honks me off is that most of England seems to have been built by someone who was under the delusion that the country was somewhere near Morocco!

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about who has snowplows--obviously they're not needed in Mexico or Florida--but I guess I never thought about England not having them, since y'all are even farther north than we are! If that makes any sense.

I also did not realize that it got that cold in Milan. I used to spend entire days out in the cold when I was grooming horses, I must have been made of tougher stuff then. ;p