*I spent the day trampling thick snow. It's nice to see that this can still happen this late in the day of global warming.
*Unless you're freezing to death from lack of Russian gas, of course.
http://planetark.org/wen/51132
PARIS - Temperatures plunged to record lows in Germany and heavy snow forced normally sunny Marseille to close its international airport as freezing winter weather gripped much of Europe on Wednesday.
Port authorities in the Dutch city of Rotterdam deployed an icebreaking ship for the first time 12 years, (((dang))) while in Britain forecasters issued a new severe weather warning.
In the Balkans, (((I'm not there, thank goodness))) thousands shivered in their homes after gas supplies to southeastern Europe were cut as a result of a contract dispute between Russia and Ukraine, reminding many of the freezing winters they endured in the wars of the 1990s....
"It all reminds me of the war when we were freezing, except there is no shooting," (((a noteable lack))) said Hilmo Celjo, who stood in a queue near the Bosnian capital Sarajevo to buy wood and coal....
