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On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:08:45 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2018-03-05 2:14 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 10:43:46 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-03-04 5:30 AM, wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 16:23:31 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2018-03-03 3:44 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was just watching local news and various stretches of coastal road
>>>>>> are no go because of all the beach rock thrown up on them. Winds were
>>>>>> wild but I was lucky, we did not lose power. However there's another
>>>>>> dose coming tonight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know about out your way but they were all cranking on about
>>>>>> lightest winter ever the other day and I felt they were tempting fate
>>>>>> OTOH, I have always found the old saw about March coming in like
>>>>>> lion, leaves like a lamb, to be pretty accurate, so lets hope.
>>>>>>
>>>>> We are hoping for a gradual thaw, not like the sudden, rapid one a few
>>>>> years ago that resulted in disastrous floods in Calgary.
>>>>
>>>> How are you placed if that happens? On higher ground?
>>>>
>>> Yes, fortunately! My son is even higher. He sometimes gets snow when I
>>> get rain! People often forget that the highest point in Calgary is
>>> ~1000'/~300m higher than the lowest.
>>
>> That's a common phenomenon. It's called a "hill". If it's a lot
>> higher, it's called a "mountain".
>>
>Oooooooooooooh! Aren't you clever!!!

Obviously not been to the prairies