Tuesday, 10 Feb 2004... 88cm of snow fell in Halifax & Newfoundland. Newfie fisherman prepares for storm... ![]() Downtown Halifax... ![]() Learning to live with snow in Eastern Canada... ![]() Newfie sunset - if you can find it... ![]() ![]() Vancouver and Victoria: Tuesday, 10 Feb 2004... Here is a photo of the damage from the terrible coastal storm that passed through Victoria last week. Most people stayed home and most schools were cancelled. It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take life for granted. Warning: Following picture is quite graphic and may not be suitable for younger viewers... ![]() Good luck has its storms. - George Lucas The sky already fell. Now what? - Steven Wright Every cloud has a silver lining. - Proverb The brain is wider than the sky. - Emily Dickinson Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin Grey skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. - Zen Saying Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb They sicken of the calm who know the storm. - Dorothy Parker Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. - Maya Angelou Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper? - Princess Leia An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. - Piper Perabo Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. - Tshi Proverb Marriage is very difficult. It's like a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky. - Cathy Ladman It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright It's not my fault I was dragged out of my house by a mob and forced to predict the weather. - Punxsutawney Phil A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter. - WC Fields Caesar dreamed that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter. - Suetonius The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. - Steven Wright I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky. - Unknown The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. - Garth Nix Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice M Swaim Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. - Edgar W Howe The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. - Marc Secchia That black cloud is coming from the direction the wind is blowing, now the wind is coming from where the black cloud is. - Ray Illingworth Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. - Saint Augustine A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. - Joseph Addison God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shines forth, like the sun when released from clouds. - Sankara see also Canada & Weather Sections |
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