: plenty of snow Sun Mar 5 17:22:36 UTC 2006 Winter is back in Switzerland! Nobody can complain about too little of snow here: from Friday to Saturday, north of the Alps about half a meter of snow fell, resulting in severe problems for individual and public transport, due to roads and tracks blocked by snow and fallen trees. Welcome extremes! Of course, mankind has no responsibility for it, it's just solar activity, galactic clouds, and the aliens. On the other hand, an old friend of my father we met today told that such masses of snow were quite common when he was a child. People aren't just used to it anymore. All in all, I like such events - even though I don't know how much time it will take me now to get back to Aarau, as the railway is blocked between Winterthur and Zurich. ----- Sun Mar 5 17:44:11 UTC 2006 : by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YBonetti?= yargo@.org Cool, looks like the railway between Winterthur and Zurich is open again! I'm probably in one of the first trains which can pass here this evening. At least we managed to get directly to Zurich Airport, so it should be fine - if the mess around Zurich has been cleaned up... Am still amazed about today's technology: I'm sitting in a train crossing Switzerland and writing a text which will be transferred in a moment to a server near (in?) Dallas, which will then publish it on the internet. If there would be anybody reading it... ^_^ -- Y.Bonetti -----