"NSM" wrote in message
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"Lee Waun" wrote in message
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| N
|
| Wow, -6 degrees. I feel sorry for you folks; must be
| terrible! Shall we send emergency aid?
|
| No no need to panic. The cold spell has ended and it is raining and 6
| degrees out. Luckily the rain is now melting that snow we had. We have
| bylaws outlawing snow here. Snow is for the rest of the country. We
don't
| allow it here.
|
| Come and visit Winnipeg. -29 now (mid afternoon; with -34 forecast
| for tonight. And that doesn't include the windchill... with
| it it will drop to the mid -40's :
|
| Only fools and my brother and sister live in Winterpeg. There is a
reason
it
| is called winterpeg.

My Grandparents emigrated from Scotland to Brandon, MB, around 1900. It
was
so cold there that after a few years they re-emigrated to New Zealand.

N

They made the right choice.