bloody rain

This is not something you'll see every day...

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I think up state New York reported having over 110 inches of snow on the ground last week. The NE coast of the US has been hit pretty hard this winter. In DC, we had 8 inches of wet snow fall in only 6 hours a couple of weeks ago...and right at rush hour. It took some co-workers 9 hours to get home (only about 10 miles). You could literally walk faster. People were running out fo gas and abandoning vehicles. We still got that snow on the ground.

That still nothing like what ol' Jape has to deal with this winter. If it's ain't water, it's fire. Man, them is the hard times!

"See, people talking about these is hard times. I remember hard times. Hard times was waaay back. Hard times was so far back, they didn't even have a year for it - they just called it 'hard times'." - Mudbone (Richard Pryor character)

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Nah mate, you lot up in the Northern parts of our disintegrating and troubled world have it far worse. FREEZING COLD is BLOODY COLD. Beats everything.

Floods, cyclones, fire, you can escape them all if you are fast enough and willing to leave a lifetime's worth of possessions behind. The miserable insurance companies will evoke clauses to avoid paying in most cases, that is true, but you can at least settle down in the shade somewhere afterwards and have a cold beer to settle your nerves. Cold beer is no fun in the snow, main reason I moved to Aus decades ago. I do not miss getting snowed in for days and weeks at a time!