Blizzards? What blizzards?
 

Woke this morning to grey skies, light to moderate wind and
thawing snow.

No sign of the blizzards forecast for last night.

Fifteen minutes ago the Met Office still had a severe weather
warning for the whole of Scotland and much of northern England.
Now it is only for eastern Scotland and northern England, and
the weather it predicts has been revised from heavy snow and
strong winds to outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow.

Wish I had a reliable crystal ball. Then I'd have arranged to be
in Aberdeen today, and gone out for a good walk in yesterday's
sunshine.

Anne
To reply replace the rock with my surname

Blizzards? What blizzards?
 

It's pretty grim down here Dundee way. it's stooped snowing, but
there's several centimetres, and I'm not going anywhere today. The big
question is will the post still get through?

When "they" say "blizzards", I don't know what they mean any more. i
take a blizzard to be snow with gale force, or at least strong, winds.
It's coming just to mean "quite heavy snow". Even the wife uses it that
way now, in spite of many years of correction. I think "they" now use
blizzard in the same way as everyone else.

Disgusted, of near Dundee.




On 2008-12-04 10:33:31 +0000, "Anne Burgess"
said:

Woke this morning to grey skies, light to moderate wind and
thawing snow.
No sign of the blizzards forecast for last night.

Blizzards? What blizzards?
 

Top posting removed

On 2008-12-04 10:33:31 +0000, "Anne Burgess"
said:

Woke this morning to grey skies, light to moderate wind and
thawing snow.
No sign of the blizzards forecast for last night.

What he said and:

Things must be pretty bad in the moral fibre in this country when we
have to refer to snow in French to make it sound deeper.

Hard to believe we won two world wars and a home match world cup.

The good old days are dead and buried in a whisper of snow. I cry for
what we lost along with hardship. I cry for the future of our women
and our daughters given to sno men.

How will they cope without sex?

Gone away are their gonads here to stay are home lads bemoaning the
sight of a snowy winter's night remembering the time when men were men.

Blizzards? What blizzards?
 

It's pretty grim down here Dundee way. it's stooped snowing,
but there's several centimetres, and I'm not going anywhere
today. The big question is will the post still get through?
I've had no post today, but it may be that there just wasn't
anything for me.

It's what I would describe as 'raw'. Temperature must be above
freezing because the thaw is continuing, but it's chill and dank
and the wind has dropped and the sky continues to be uniformly
grey.

When "they" say "blizzards", I don't know what they mean any
more. i take a blizzard to be snow with gale force, or at
least strong, winds.
That is what I would mean if I used the term.

It's coming just to mean "quite heavy snow". Even the wife
uses it that way now, in spite of many years of correction. I
think "they" now use blizzard in the same way as everyone
else.
Please include me out of 'they'. I know what I mean by a
blizzard, which definitely involves strong winds blowing the
snow around. And I didn't use the word 'they' in my message.

Disgusted, of near Dundee.
Not sure if you're disgusted by the weather, or by the misuse of
the language, or both.

Equally disgusted (by both), of Fochabers.