Snowflakes and Earthquakes
Last night, rumbling walls woke me up. As I watched the perfume bottles on my dresser pop up and down, I realized what was happening. Another earthquake hit Chicago. I went back to sleep. You see, natural disasters are pretty common here. I've lived through blizzards, floods, tornadoes and this counts as the third earthquake I can remember. It was only a mild 3.8 on the richter scale. Those tremors were nothing compared to the 12.6 inches of snow that clobbered Chi-town yesterday. The snowfall broke the record for the most daily snow in 125 years. Top that off with blowing and drifting snow and 7-12 below wind chills and you've got a typical Chicago winter. How do I deal? Lots of coats, sweaters, boots and a highly developed appreciation for the whims of nature.
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Greetings from London.
And Toronto is having the complete opposite when it comes too snow. it snowed yesterday but nothing much, Vancouver needs all the snow the usa is getting because the ski hill literally has no snow on it.
TIffany, No, the quake was too mild to do anything but rattle houses. I'll send some snow over to Vancouver for you.
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Kalyber, you are so right. My visit to St. Thomas next month is helping to sustain me. Thanks for dropping by.
That's pretty scary about the earthquake though. These blizzards, earthquakes, flooding...something is most definitely going on!
Catherine a 5.8! Now that wasn't a mild one. This disasters are becoming more frequent and I don't know if it's global warming or what.
Jean-Luc, I wish I could stay indoors!
Mary, that sounds so nice but I don't know when I'll have time to do it.