Bad days (a bit long and very cold)

[Elian Degen J.]

Hello list

Definitively there are some major Global weather changes going on.
After last year Floods in which ended erasing a state from Venezuelan
coastline, and I found out changed the Geografic line because it added
several thousand acres of land to the coast line and happened in what used
to be Venezuelas dry season. (Normaly, raini seson here is fom May to
September ) This year started with more rains (not normal here ) and an
unusual cold weather for tropics. Were Ilive temperatures never go lwer than
20ªC  This year they went down to almost 14ªC in some days. The biggest
concern appart from the natural disasters and human loss from these
continuos rains, is what a client of mine told me. I tuned a piano for a man
who is in charge of several farms, and he told me that agriculture was in
danger, because of the impossibility of predicting a good moment for
planting and harvesting, investments in those fields are millionaire, and
with this unpredictable weather they were in danger of loosing the crops..
That is something to think about on a Global basis

Have a happy week end


----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: Bad days (a bit long and very cold)


Jon,

We all?  Contributors to this list come from an awful lot of places.  I bet
a
few locations rarely see a flake.  I've had a couple problems with snow in
the
past four weeks, but nothing even close to what Kristinn describes here.
Since
I'm not such a snow fan, thanks, Kristinn, for helping me appreciate living
where we don't get as much as you do.

Regards,
Clyde Hollinger
Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA

Jon Page wrote:

> Kristinn,
>
> We all have "Abominable Snow Stories".  I've had those days.
> Fortunately, you made it without incident. Keep it up.

>
> >Where to begin?
> >
> >The weather has been pretty interesting this last week.  The last weekend
I
> >went to a town about 45 minutes away for a concert tuning.  The church
that
> >bought this new Steinway C from Hamburg was holding the concert in
> >celebration of the new instrument.  Having tuned for them almost
> >exclusively the last two years I decided to do this one for free.
> >
> >I started on my way around noon.  The road goes over pretty high country,
> >and the weather on the moor was very bad, heavy snowing etc.
> >
> >I finished tuning the grand and got on my way back.  I drove for about 25
> >minutes the same way back and started noticing some jeeps in trouble with
> >the snow.
> >Visibility was zero.
> >I figured this way was out of the question for my non-jeepish Toyota.
> >
> >So, I turned back.  When I got down from the moor again the police had
> >already closed everything down.
> >
> >I decided to take the only other way to town (apart from driving the
other
> >way around the country).  The weather there was also bad but I got
through
> >-- just barely--  some two thousand people got stuck on this road just
> >after I got through and had to stay there for up to 14 hours to be
rescued.
> > Nobody left their keys in the cars so the road was clogged up for the
next
> >day or two.
> >
> >
> >Well, yesterday I drove a fifteen-minute way to a tuning.  An easy job, I
> >was even offered a wonderful salmon dinner.
> >
> >After that there was just the way back, eerily similar to the weekend.
> >First of all there was a car stuck in the exit of a roundabout and I had
to
> >wait for that one to pull loose.
> >
> >"Whoops, the gas light has been glowing for a good while now."
> >
> >I smashed my way through the piles of snow in front of the gas station.
> >Only the self-service part of the station was open so I couldn´t make
> >anyone else than me suffer out in the weather.  After banging open the
> >frozen lid on the car I went to pay.  I had to wipe the snow off the
> >computer screen and stick my car key in the bill-slot to get the ice out.
> >
> >I took a bill worth 1000 IKR ($14) and started putting it in.  My fingers
> >were numb by that time and I accidentally dropped the bill, which, sure
> >enough, disappeared up on the roof of the station.  The next bill I took
> >was only a 500 IKR (in case I also dropped that one, it would have been
> >less of a loss).  That one went in easily so I proceeded pumping gas into
> >my craving vehicle.  It all went fine up to 70 IKR ($1) --  either the
pump
> >was empty or just frozen!
> >My head also probably froze 'cause I feel rotten today.
> >So on one dollars worth I got home.
> >
> >Other than that there hasn´t been much going on, apart from this week´s
> >volcanic eruption, of course.
> >
> >
> >Regards from the land of fire and ice,
> >
> >Kristinn Leifsson
> >Reykjavík, Iceland
> >