Re: [CH] Wake the Fork Up!
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:55:39 -0500
Of course a storm dumping heavy snow on the east coast of the US and Canada is
not going to help the Olympics in BC very much... :-)
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:00:40 -0800, R.A. Williams wrote
> >>
> > Yeah....and up here in British Columbia, we are crying for snow! The
> > 2010 Winter Olympics are on, and we have no snow! It had to be trucked
> > in from 4 - 500 miles away to Vancouver to the different venues on
> > Cypress Mountain just north of Vancouver.
> >
> > Richard, when I met my wife Marie in Toronto in 1947 I used to kid her
> > about having web feet! Never ever thinking that we would end up living
> > for more of our lives in BC and as she was born in North Vancouver, I
> > actually returned her to the place where she was born! So, now over 40
> > years of our 62 years together have been spent here in Beautiful
> > British Columbia!......much nicer than Toronto, where I was born!
> >
> > Send you spare snow out this way, please...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Old Doug in BC
> >
>
> Given the perversity of the weather around here, you KNOW what's
> gonna happen, don't you Doug?
>
> 3 days after the end of the Olympics, a really nasty north-easter
> will blow in and dump massive amounts of snow. I'm sure you remember
> the winter of 68-69...like that.
>
> sigh
>
> Richard
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=Mark
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