> > It's cold down here in Georgia and there is snow in Tennessee. I heard they were closing schools west of Nashville because of up to 4 inches of white stuff. I'll be glad when spring gets here.
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> > Dogwood winter is gone, so this must be blackberry winter. By the time I left home this morning we had already gotten 2 inches of rain, so I guess that little dry spell is over. When that stump in the yard disappears, I plan to mow the grass. June, maybe?
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> > In this area, about two traffic jams north of Atlanta, they had a low of 28 degrees F in 1940. That was the year when the Cumberland River froze over in Nashville and the Easter bunny left tracks in 8 inch of snow. Yes, I remember that.
> > Howard
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> We Canadians feel your pain. Really.
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> Maybe you can go to Madeira and give some perspective to the misguided people there who wear buttoned-up winter coats in the 18 C (64 F) "winter".
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> 4 inches of snow in April? You people don't know how good you have it. Just two years ago we had a snowstorm on April 28. A real Canadian snowstorm, not just a few inches. We're metric here - we measure our snowfall in meters ;) And we don't close schools for it either.
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> ^v^:)^v^
> FB

I guess it all depend on you point of view. I vacation in Hawaii a lot and those people think over 80 F is hot and under 70 F is cold. They have about two bad-weather days a year.
Howard