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cloudboy -> RE: Snow (2/10/2010 12:21:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
I am sitting here at my desk, chuckling at the sound of a car trying to get unstuck next door.
Silly college kids driving their BMW's with their low profile, high performance, tires.
Hitler conducted OPERATION BARBAROSSA without any winter gear to supply his German Army after it attacked Russia. After the first snowfall, Hitler's campaign was doomed. Poor morale in dealing with the cold and snow was later compounded by the first Russian counter attack launched out of Moscow. Russian soldiers, dressed in white and mounted on skis fresh off the train from training in Siberia -- helped push the Germans backwards.
This ill conceived planning was later mirrored by US troops in IRAQ, who sat by idly as the IRAQIs looted the country's government offices of all equipment, supplies and materials -- pretty much negating any possibility of setting up a new provisional authority to govern in the vacuum we created.
Baltimore has banned all civilian vehicles from using the road. I went out walking for 30 minutes. I live right in the Northern Central part of the city, and it was like traversing Antarctica. Luckily the snow is light and fluffy and the accumulation is just around 10-12 inches.
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