: Re: Stormy Christmas!

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Hi ,Sounds like a scary Christmas indeed. And an unusual one in Australia too! Around here it's been unusually warm instead, near 10C (which is spring weather here, not December weather) for all of Christmas. The hurricanes must be even more drunk than usual this year...love/Reb>> Hi Reb,> > a friend who lives near the east coast of Australia had a scary 'white Christmas'!> > Hailstones as big as golf balls and a mini tornado which made it sound like her house was under attack. No lives lost, but windows and cars were casualties.> > Downright odd - on Christmas day we would be expecting temperatures anywhere from 20c to 42c and 'mini tornados' are almost unheard of!> > I guess her hurricane was drunk?> > > > Stormy Christmas!> > > > We've had a windy Christmas in Scandinavia! But apart from not getting much in the way of cell phone and/or internet coverage, we were absolutely fine, Norway, the north half of Sweden and, I think, Finland were so much worse off (electricity out, traffic stopping, roofs blowing apart, that kinds of things...). So we are most certainly not complaining! It is, however, an explanation of why I've been missing in action here. > > > > Talking about windy, we heard a humorous Norwegian song on TV, using the expression "full hurricane". Don't know if that's an expression in English, but it would be the literal translation of the expression in Norwegian, and Swedish, meaning when a storm reaches hurricane strength of wind (according to some scale or other). However, and this was the basis for the pun in the lyrics, the word "full" is in the Scandinavian languages not only the word for, precisely, full, but is also the word for "drunk". > > > The lyrics went something like (in translation): "No use trying to stop a hurricane when it's drunk, it'll rip apart the city as it pleases. But in the morning it will lay down, and feel remorse for what it's done."> > > OK, probably funnier in Norwegian/Swedish, but anyway....> > > Here's hoping you'll be spared from a hurricane that is drunk! ;-)> > > love> /Reb>