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

[Rick Beckrich]

I was in in *Bordeaux* that winter...

heating with a pot-belly stove.

Not a good thing.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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