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Thread ID: 70079	2006-06-21 10:45:00	Almost Snow	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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465011	2006-06-21 10:45:00	After weeks of watching the weather get it wrong for Southland tonight my neighbour rang and told me to go outside. It was almost snow. Sleet really. Looked pretty, very spotty though. I got one picture and now its stopped. But hey....almost....	pctek (84)
465012	2006-06-21 11:06:00	The novelty will wear off verrry quickly PCTEK. After living at high altitude with the white stuff before I believe the only time it's any good is when you're skiing/boarding and tanked up on Scotch or some similar combustible material ;)	Shortcircuit (1666)
465013	2006-06-21 11:40:00	I remember in Gore it used to snow almost yearly, however this was usually just sleet. It used to settle (and be one or 2 inches deep) about every 4 years.	Myth (110)
465014	2006-06-21 21:02:00	Shortcircuit - I know. Especially once its icy. Anyway it didn't happen, back to rain now. Not even a frost this morning. Its just the weather on TV keeps saying snow to sea level in Southland, and it sure hasn't happened yet. Thus - almost....	pctek (84)
465015	2006-06-21 22:02:00	Snowing in Papanui, ChCh at the moment. Not as enthusiastically as it did a couple of weeks ago though. We must be all of 20 ft above sea level here!	John H (8)
465016	2006-06-21 22:12:00	Snow.. ick. Makes me think of cold dandruff. Only time I experienced it was when I lived in Yorkshire for a few years. Yeah it was fun at first, and the collies we had loved it. And missus used to be a fanatic skier. But yeah the novelty wore off pdq once I had to drive in the stuff.	Greg (193)
465017	2006-06-21 22:19:00	The citizens of ChCh are undergoing an extraordinarily dumb rebuilding of suburban streets by our glorious leadership at the moment - you know the kind - narrowing streets, bringing the verge out so there is only one lane when there are parked cars, and throttling the exit so that if a car is trying to turn right into the main thoroughfare, cars turning left can't get through on the inside. A part of these glorious amendments is the growth of imitation brick humps at the exit point. Well, the point of this post (if there is one) is that I discovered this am that they are unbelievably slippery in minor snow conditions. I turned into the street in my trusty 4WD Carib at a reasonable speed for the conditions, but ended up doing a 4 wheel skid sideways across the 'bricks'. A hazard for young players...	John H (8)
465018	2006-06-22 01:09:00	The citizens of ChCh are undergoing an extraordinarily dumb rebuilding of suburban streets by our glorious leadership at the moment Know what you mean. Supposed to be "people friendly". Yeah, right! On one street corner in Riccarton there is this kind of small pool surrounded by rocks and odd plants which some child is one day going to climb and fall in. My aunt bought an townhouse in Riccarton which has the road narrowed [you can't park anywhere outside the row of townhouses she is in],and not long after she moved there some council guys came round to put lawn strips along these enlarged footpaths outside her place and others. Boy, did she take them on. Told them she finally had a place without a lawn and there was no way she was ever going to mow a lawn again. She said if they went ahead, she would dig it up again, then told them to get lost. The following week they planted some native flax type bushes instead. Female power :thumbs: Also, with all those flaming 4WD's, and the widening of footpaths on corners, and you are trying to turn right or even left, it's a nightmare. Had a light dusting of flakes this morning, which melted as it hit the ground. The weight of the snow we got last week brought down huge branches from our overgrown row of gum trees. Fortunately they tend to fall into the paddock or just slip down, still remaining upright and held in position by other branches. Hope I'm not around if any hit the house. My brother had someone in to try topping them last year, but the cutting equipment on their machines snapped with the hardness of the branches. :stare: The guy hasn't come back.	MMM (5660)
465019	2006-06-22 01:23:00	Go Aunty! I wish I had got out on the street and protested as well. I would like to see a comparative costing of all the street work they are doing, compared with the savings they want to make by closing down swimming pools and libraries. I know what I would go for, and it isn't the dumb street works. I guess you need to be like Chicken Licken at the moment MMM, and assume the sky is going to fall in (an old man gum branch might as well be the sky if you are under it - worse than a coconut!).	John H (8)
465020	2006-06-22 02:10:00	I guess you need to be like Chicken Licken at the moment MMM, and assume the sky is going to fall in (an old man gum branch might as well be the sky if you are under it - worse than a coconut!) . LOL . Hey, I wonder if that Rolling Stone ? keith someone, who fell out of the tree, would have had that same tree fall on him if he was simply sitting under it . Bad Karma, perhaps . Re: the gum trees, if they fell they would wipe out my car, the caravan, the garage, the house, the powerlines and the row of poplars on the opposite side of the property . Actually if one fell and rested in the hollow it made in my roof, you could use it like a seesaw . Could fit a couple of football teams on each side . Pity the wood isn't that impressive as firewood . Could make a killing . When you are at a nursery, they usually say how high the tree will grow . Any ideas when gum trees reach their limit . They'll get to heaven before I do if they keep on at this rate! :p	MMM (5660)
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