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oggbashan
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I experienced snow when living on Gibraltar, and in Melbourne, Australia.
I used to commute to work on the Gosport Ferry from Gosport to Portsmouth. Until I moved to Gosport the ferry had run through storms and Nazi bombing attacks.
Once Og was settled in Gosport the ferry stopped running once for fog in harbour channel and another time for fast-moving icebergs in Portsmouth Harbour.
Snow is forecast here later this week.
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I used to commute to work on the Gosport Ferry from Gosport to Portsmouth. Until I moved to Gosport the ferry had run through storms and Nazi bombing attacks.
Once Og was settled in Gosport the ferry stopped running once for fog in harbour channel and another time for fast-moving icebergs in Portsmouth Harbour.
Snow is forecast here later this week.
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The weather station is located at the airport adjacent to the bay, and theyre predicting temps of 25F. Out here where I live it will be in the teens.
The weather station is located at the airport adjacent to the bay, and theyre predicting temps of 25F. Out here where I live it will be in the teens.
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Are you prepared for it?
We have double-glazing, gas central heating, a laid coal fire in case the power fails, propane heaters and a cooker and a good supply of food and drink.
But this is England - we shouldn't need to be prepared, but the authorities aren't. The roads block with snow that Scandanavians would sneeze at; the railways stop running because "It's the wrong kind of snow" and deliveries to supermarkets dry up as customers panic-buy things they don't need.
Many shops were shut yesterday. From the car parks around the supermarkets you might assume that they were shut for a month - but snow is forecast so people buy, buy, buy...
Madness.
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Weird Harold
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That lloks like a New England winter scene, and If I hadn't seen the "Yankee Sea Captain" style houses in Florida for myself, I'd doubt the caption.
It's a beautiful house, but totally inappropriate for Florida's climate exept for the four or five days every year that it gets really cold.
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The design was common back about 1900. Of course, at that time many Northerners were building winter homes in Florida, and surely used designs that reminded them of home.
A Cracker Vernacular home was generally two distinct structures connected by the roof and a breezeway between them. Usually one of the structures was the kitchen and storage.
The design was common back about 1900. Of course, at that time many Northerners were building winter homes in Florida, and surely used designs that reminded them of home.
A Cracker Vernacular home was generally two distinct structures connected by the roof and a breezeway between them. Usually one of the structures was the kitchen and storage.
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With the "Widow's Walk" on the roof, it's the more specific genre of "Yankee Sea Captain" -- those houses built by retired New England seancaptains. I read a lot about Florida history when I was stationed at McDill AFB in the late seventies because here were several of those Yankee Sea Captain homes along the bayside drive into work every day.
