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- From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
- Newsgroups: can.general,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: Vancouver area weather
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:46:02 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- After a few days of not very much happening except for almost
- imperceptible thawing, we had what was supposed to be moderate
- rain, but turned out to be snow.
-
- Then last night it _rained_. My lawn is now clear but for the
- remains of the shovelled snow alongside the drive. The never-
- shovelled sidewalk across the street has reappeared. And the
- pool cover had so much rain water on it, it was in danger of
- overflowing - physics dictates that the water level _under_ the
- cover is as high as that on top, so an overflow would be a mix
- of rainwater and a chemical mix that is OK for us to swim in
- but may not be released into the creek at the back of our lot,
- so overflow must be prevented (besides, God knows what would
- happen to the cover and the timber lengths that hold it down).
- Since the portable pump and its discharge hose were still
- buried in the snow, this morning saw the spectacle of me pouring
- pails of hot water on the snow, hose and pump to thaw things out,
- then, when that didn't work too well, resorting to dumping the
- pump into a pail of hot water to make it thaw _itself_ out.
- Then I had to break a hole in the ice sheet floating on top of
- all that new rainwater so that I could drop the pump through
- and start what will probably be about two days of removing
- the rainwater from the cover.
-
- The above submitted for the entertainment of Easterners who
- have probably never engaged in just these activities.
-