On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:16:44 -0400, "JimR" wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --

Hah! Takes me back...

I remember tenting at minus 25 (at which point, ISTR, Celsius and
Fahrenheit converge?), during a 10-day mushing trip on the Great Slave
Lake. Ah...them were the days..

Persephone