Re: [OM] OT: Snow, graves and a poet

[Brian Swale]

Chuck Norcutt wrote

> You call it climate change because you think it's unprecedented.  You're
> simply not old enough to remember the "Big Freeze of 1963".  :-)
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%931963_in_the_United_Ki
> ngdom

I was there then. Snow on the ground for a (perhaps) unprecedented 50 
consecutive days in Oxford. Keeping warm was a major exercise.

The city was using mains electricity to thaw frozen waterpipes.

Brian Swale. 
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