Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

It's twenty degrees below zero with about eight inches of snow on the ground right now. My eyelashes were encrusted with ice when I came in from a walk.

Originally Posted by Stephen

I've never seen snow here in Australia. We do get snow in the hills but I've never been. I can't even imagine sub-zero temperatures. I dare say people from colder regions would have trouble imagining our record summer temp of 48 degrees C.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.