White Christmas in Indianapolis

[Covenanter]

All of which is just more evidence of global warming, doncha know?

Someone found a way to get political. Shocking.

When I opened the thread, I expected it to be all about white supremacy; black lives matter, etc!

This is our church Christmas congregation -

My wife & I are the only ethnic English ....

 

[Rob_BW]

When I opened the thread, I expected it to be all about white supremacy; black lives matter, etc!

This is our church Christmas congregation -

My wife & I are the only ethnic English ....

Should I take that to mean that neither White Christmas the movie nor White Christmas the song are popular in the UK?

 

[Covenanter]

Should I take that to mean that neither White Christmas the movie nor White Christmas the song are popular in the UK?

I haven't see the movie, but I have sung the song. Snow is pretty on cards & calendars, but not in real life.

The first Christmas we were married, December was very mild until we went away for days. We came home in a blizzard with our m/bike & side car to find our house frozen solid. Snow was packed ice on the roads till mid March. We got our house fixed in time for our first baby, born in August 1963.

Never again!

 

[Rob_BW]

1996 was the worst that I can remember. 30 inches in a 24 hour period, and over 3 feet total. We had over 200 inches total that winter.

 

[David Kent]

Should I take that to mean that neither White Christmas the movie nor White Christmas the song are popular in the UK?

They trot out the movie on TV every year. I have not heard the song lately but it is probably common on Radio, but I don;t often listen to that.

One that they play often in the supermarkets is Wish I could be home for Christmas, aka Call off the Cavalry, but can rarely hear any words.

 

[Covenanter]

One that they play often in the supermarkets is Wish I could be home for Christmas, aka Call off the Cavalry, but can rarely hear any words.

Haven't heard "Stop the Cavalry" broadcast for years - it's very catchy with interesting lyrics:


Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here
To say we're doing splendidly.
But it's very cold out here in the snow
Marching to and from the enemy.
Oh I say it's tough, I have had enough
Can you stop the cavalry?

I have had to fight almost every night
Down throughout these centuries.
That is when I say, oh yes yet again
Can you stop the cavalry?

Mary Bradley waits at home
In the nuclear fallout zone.
Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love.

Dub-a-dum-dum-dub-a-dum
Dub-a-dub-a-dum
Wish I was at home for Christmas.

Bang! that's another bomb on another town
While the Czar and Jim have tea.
If I get home, live to tell the tale
I'll run for all presidencies.
If I get elected I'll stop—
I will stop the cavalry.

Dub-a-dum-dum-dub-a-dum
Dub-a-dub-a-dum
Wish I was at home for Christmas.

Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love.
Mary Bradley waits at home
She's been waiting two years long.
Wish I was at home for Christmas.

Read more: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

[David Kent]

Haven't heard "Stop the Cavalry" broadcast for years - it's very catchy with interesting lyrics:

I heard it a couple of times in Tesco last week.

When there was a Co-op supermarket in Faversham, they used to play a lot every year, A few years ago Co-op sold their store to Morrison's. They now only seem to have convenience stores. We have two in Whitstable, about 100 yards apart. There is another one due to open in a couple of months time.

 

[OnlyaSinner]

View attachment 1898 it started snowing around nine A.M. this morning.
We got twelve to sixteen inches in northern Maine.
That’s on top of the snow we traveled through to get here Saturday.


RobView attachment 1897

Looks like I-95, a ways north of Bangor.
Had 8" on Christmas Day, tied (with 1978 while living near Maine's northern tip) for the biggest 12/25 snowfall I've seen. We did have 15" on 12/24/1966 when I lived in north Jersey - had thunder with that one.

 

[David Kent]

We ave not had any snow yet in this corner, it has been raining all day and the forecast is frost tonight so it may freeze. The problem with that is if they grit the road, and it rains again it could wash all the salt off the road before it freezes.

 

[Deacon]

Looks like I-95, a ways north of Bangor.
Had 8" on Christmas Day, tied (with 1978 while living near Maine's northern tip) for the biggest 12/25 snowfall I've seen. We did have 15" on 12/24/1966 when I lived in north Jersey - had thunder with that one.

We traveled home yesterday. Looks like the weather we traveled through in Connecticut and southern Maine was an ice storm; all the birch trees are bent over.
Two days after the snow on Christmas I95 is almost clear.
...and yes, the speed limit is 75 up there.

Rob

 

[Covenanter]

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 – 1860

Rob

In preparation for moving we've already sold or given away about 1,000 books & we've still lots more to find homes for.

 

[InTheLight]

The National Weather Service reports International Falls, MN and Hibbing, MN set record low temperatures on Wednesday morning.

International Falls — the self-proclaimed "Nation's Icebox" — plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924. Hibbing bottomed out at 28 below, breaking the old record of 27 below set in 1964.

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[carpro]

The National Weather Service reports International Falls, MN and Hibbing, MN set record low temperatures on Wednesday morning.

International Falls — the self-proclaimed "Nation's Icebox" — plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924. Hibbing bottomed out at 28 below, breaking the old record of 27 below set in 1964.

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Trump's fault.

 

[Use of Time]

Trump's fault.

It’s cold in Minnesota so let’s make a political issue out of something that nobody else is trying to do.