Tuesday, 10 Feb 2004... 88cm of snow fell in Halifax & Newfoundland. Newfie fisherman prepares for storm... ![]() Downtown Halifax... ![]() Learning to live with snow in Eastern Canada... ![]() Newfie sunset - if you can find it... ![]() ![]() Vancouver and Victoria: Tuesday, 10 Feb 2004... Here is a photo of the damage from the terrible coastal storm that passed through Victoria last week. Most people stayed home and most schools were cancelled. It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take life for granted. Warning: Following picture is quite graphic and may not be suitable for younger viewers... ![]() Good luck has its storms. - George Lucas Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong The sky already fell. Now what? - Steven Wright The brain is wider than the sky. - Emily Dickinson Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin I talk to God but the sky is empty. - Sylvia Plath Qualm: Feeling odd about a coming storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb They sicken of the calm who know the storm. - Dorothy Parker There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain This is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air. - Curt Gowdy Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. - Henry David Thoreau I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. - Dodie Smith The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. - Don Marquis I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery It's not my fault I was dragged out of my house by a mob and forced to predict the weather. - Punxsutawney Phil A good wife is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter. - WC Fields Caesar dreamed that he was flying above the clouds, and now that he was clasping the hand of Jupiter. - Suetonius I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky. - Unknown The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. - Garth Nix Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have survived the storm of yesterday and that has made me so grateful for today. - Unknown Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. - Saint Augustine The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. - Epictetus Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? It is the same the angels breathe. - Mark Twain It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. - Truman Capote I had fried octopus last night. You have to be really quiet when you eat it. Otherwise, it emits a cloud of black smoke and falls on the floor. - Steven Wright NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shines forth, like the sun when released from clouds. - Sankara see also Canada & Weather Sections |
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