Comments on: In like a lion, out like a lamb http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/ It Do What It Do Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:07:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Chris Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:20:41 +0000 http://www.idwid.com/blog/archives/128#comment-714 Sounds like when I lived in Seattle. Up there, two or three inches was a major crisis! Of course, much of the city is built on hills, so you can understand there were some problems driving on the ice, but still. Of course, we have problems here, too. During the summer, when it sometimes gets to 117, 118, we can have things like the asphalt on the streets softening. You can see places where the lines on the roads are smeared, and not because of the paint running. Sounds like when I lived in Seattle. Up there, two or three inches was a major crisis! Of course, much of the city is built on hills, so you can understand there were some problems driving on the ice, but still.
Of course, we have problems here, too. During the summer, when it sometimes gets to 117, 118, we can have things like the asphalt on the streets softening. You can see places where the lines on the roads are smeared, and not because of the paint running.

]]> By: Dimitris Kiminas http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Dimitris Kiminas Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:49 +0000 http://www.idwid.com/blog/archives/128#comment-713 I live in Athens, Greece and here during the whole winter it snows for 2 days every 3 years or so. In fact, when it snows the city goes "out of order". The public bus service does not work because "the buses are not designed to take chains on their tires". People try to go to work on foot or with their own cars, but as they are accustomed to snow, the visits to the hospitals for broken bones are high. Plus car crashes aplenty, because we don't know how to drive on snowed roads inside Athens (and nobody has bought chains for his tires). This happened a month ago, and I remember it well 'cause nobody went to work, me included! We all called in as 'snowbound' and spend the day watching the city's disintegration in the TV. The laugh was watching a co-worker of mine complain on TV that his jeep lay inside his garage, and that none of the municipality people showed up to clean the snow off his pavement so he could take his jeep out!!! I live in Athens, Greece and here during the whole winter it snows for 2 days every 3 years or so.

In fact, when it snows the city goes “out of order”. The public bus service does not work because “the buses are not designed to take chains on their tires”. People try to go to work on foot or with their own cars, but as they are accustomed to snow, the visits to the hospitals for broken bones are high. Plus car crashes aplenty, because we don’t know how to drive on snowed roads inside Athens (and nobody has bought chains for his tires). This happened a month ago, and I remember it well ’cause nobody went to work, me included! We all called in as ‘snowbound’ and spend the day watching the city’s disintegration in the TV. The laugh was watching a co-worker of mine complain on TV that his jeep lay inside his garage, and that none of the municipality people showed up to clean the snow off his pavement so he could take his jeep out!!!

]]> By: GregT http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-716 GregT Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:18:23 +0000 http://www.idwid.com/blog/archives/128#comment-716 Meanwhile I had to clear some snow off the car this past Monday morning, up in Ontario, Canada, eh. (It melted by noon, though the huge piles from earlier remain.) Meanwhile I had to clear some snow off the car this past Monday morning, up in Ontario, Canada, eh. (It melted by noon, though the huge piles from earlier remain.)

]]> By: Chris http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/31/general/march-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Chris Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:55:18 +0000 http://www.idwid.com/blog/archives/128#comment-715 Funny. I live in Phoenix. We had highs in the 80's this month... ;) Funny. I live in Phoenix. We had highs in the 80′s this month… ;)

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