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You’ve hear that saying, “When h*%% freezes over.” Don’t use it carelessly, it just might. Here I am in the sunny south to escape the winter cold for the first time in my life, and it is warmer ‘back home’ than it is here. Much warmer in fact.

  Once again here it is today in Halifax/Dartmouth with a balmy plus one degree.

  This is the temperature this morning in warm sunny Florida. Minus three degrees, with a wind chill of –7.

  Even if you go a little further south to Orlando it is hanging around zero degrees, with a wind chill of minus four.

Now I have heard tell of this before and the experts agree. The strange part of it all is that this has been going on for such a long time. Temperatures have already been extremely low for over a week. Forecasters predict temperatures will be well below normal for at least a week longer, maybe more.

Minus three or four degree temperatures may not seem extreme to those of us accustomed to it as part of our normal winters. Here it is a different story. This is where a lot of our crops come from this time of year, oranges, strawberries, and tomatoes, to name a few. Guess what that will do to prices.

There are many other things we take for granted. Heavy clothes and insulation are not normally needed here. The pipes split in the place where we are staying, being made of thin plastic. There were big patches of ice on some streets where large water puddles had been. There are no salt trucks here.

When you look at the weather map online and on TV the weather is cold over North America, parts of Europe and even Asia. I don’t know if snowbirds or any other bird should go south for the winter.

Looks to me like  h*%%  could freeze over and it wouldn’t even be warm there.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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