Bitter Cold and Snow

We have had one tough winter this year. We had a couple of good years so I suppose we were way overdue in this area for a snowy, bitterly cold, windy winter. There is ice everywhere and if you don't watch your step very closely, you will find yourself lying on the ground with broken bones. The emergency wards are full of people with injuries. Once the snow melts a little and freezes back into ice, there seems to be no getting rid of it and then a little fresh snow covering it, is an accident waiting to happen. We are really going to appreciate Spring this year.

Russian Oil Spil

High Winds have halted the cleanup of the Russian oil spill. Fierce winds hampered crews struggling to clean up in the wake of a killer storm that sank at least 11 ships and split an oil tanker in two. It was spilling tons of petroleum in the waters near a Russian seaport.