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Hadley CRU in The Independent. Monday, 20 March 2000
http://bit.ly/6txwuR
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Gordon H
<janet.a...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>The message <aj1bk5h089nisvimj...@4ax.com>
>from Dink <dash.r...@invalid.domain> contains these words:
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>> "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past", Dr. David Viner of
>> Hadley CRU in The Independent. Monday, 20 March 2000
>> http://bit.ly/6txwuR
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>headline written by a journalist to catch attention.
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> Here's what Dr David Viner DID say in the article above .
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> "Heavy snow will return occasionally, but when it does we will be
>unprepared. We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably
>cause chaos in 20 years time,"
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> Which for at least the last century, has been the pattern in England.
> Just as he describes above. If you follow the British press, they all
>list the big snowfalls in England that happen
>every 20 years or so.
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> Janet
I remember 1946, and 1963.
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Gordon H
<amyg...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>Gordon H <Gordo...@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
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>> In message <3130303039303...@zetnet.co.uk>, Janet Baraclough
>> <janet.a...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
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>> >
>> > "Heavy snow will return occasionally, but when it does we will be
>> >unprepared. We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably
>> >cause chaos in 20 years time,"
>> >
>> > Which for at least the last century, has been the pattern in England.
>> > Just as he describes above. If you follow the British press, they all
>> > list the big snowfalls in England that happen every 20 years or so.
>> >
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Maybe it was the winter of 1946/47?
I remember American GI's trying in vain to light a fire in an oil drum
outside the next door garage which they had taken over as their
transport depot. They failed miserably until Mum went round with
some fat wrapped in newspaper, thrust it in their hands and fled before
they ravished her. (She had heard about the Yanks and their ways).
;-)
I'm not sure what year that was, it may have been '44, but there was
snow on the ground, and eventually my parents got permission for the two
frozen sentries to come in (one at a time) for a hot drink and a warm in
front of our fire during the evening shift.
That kind of escalated until there was a semi-permanent group of up to a
dozen of them occupying our living room during their off-duty spells.
They were fun times for us kids, with free chewing gum, and occasionally
the GIs would declare a party, and bring all kinds of stuff we had never
seen since before the war. It was their way of repaying our
hospitality, and those guys understood how tough it was for the Brits
when we were fighting the Nazis alone.
Jean B.
An interesting memory. Thanks for sharing that, Gordon.
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