First time I visited the US was in the end on the 80’s. I was In California to attend some serious NASCAR and Drag Racing, yea I’m a car nut as well. I drew up to a gas station with my rented Mustang, yak, I’m a Pentastar guy. I went to the counter and paid for 20 gallons and they noticed that I did not speak “their language”. They asked me from where I am and I told them "from Finland". The discussion continued like this:
woow, must be cold over there
Yea, it’s freezing cold for sure
How do you manage to live up there?
Well, it’s hard but we Finns are though guys you know
But where do you get your food from if everything is frozen then?
We’re hunters you know
Woow, do you have polar bears over there?
Yea, a lot of ‘em. As a matter of fact I just went polar bear hunting the other week. The meat taste so good
Wooow, awesome
By then the whole gas station was listening to our conversation

AND here we finally have the evidence. Polar Bears do exist in Finland as the videos has been posted on this thread

Jan Richards

[www.stonesondecca.com]

"It's been a hard hard winter...." and it just getting colder.. -32 Celsius degrees now here in Tampere. Sun is shining in a blue sky and all looks beutiful, but simply too goddamn cold to do anything outside...

- Doxa

Yep, and this is the North-Pole yesterday...as they sing: The world has turned upside down..



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YES -32 and not getting any warmer.

Bottniska viken (part of the Baltic Sea) has frozen which means that we will have inlandclimate here in the north of Sweden. That means that the temperatures will drop quite dramatically for quite a while. We have had temperatures between minus 20 and 30 degrees Celsius here for more than a week. Kiruna (far north of Sweden) had - 42.6 C a couple of days ago. The funny thing is that you get used to it and the advantage is that it doesn't snow in those temperatures.

-32 C too....60km away from tampere

Luckily,temperature,goes a bit down aroun 1-4pm,after that,it gets really cold and fast,good thing is,i can take my dog out around 1pm.We take our usual 5km walkin,fast!

75F/24C and sunny in New Orleans right now!

Ya'll eat your hearts out.

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Edith Grove
75F/24C and sunny in New Orleans right now!

Ya'll eat your hearts out.

You will not be greeted!

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

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Edith Grove
75F/24C and sunny in New Orleans right now!

Ya'll eat your hearts out.

Almost 30C here in Brazil... nice, apart of the heavy rain that visit us every single day!!!

At least we have four seasons here in the north! It must be a pain with the sun in your face all the time!

Fox News found something else to report from Finland ><:





According to the O'Reilly Factor-show: "This is a country that eats reindeer. These are people that eat Rudolph and they're telling McDonald's what to do? McDonald's is the greatest food company in the history of the world, it feeds people more efficiently than any government."

Aren't we bad, huh?

- Doxa



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-02-19 21:34 by Doxa.

By the way, it's "only" -27 C degrees now... Anaway, just came from a sauna, and there was some + 110 C, so who cares... Time to get a few nice cold beers...

- Doxa

I didn't realize Finland was coordinating McDonalds marketing campaign.LOL O'Reilly really needs to take a step Beck...If you know what I mean... In other words, these self serving political anal-lysts really need eradication. They are all egomaniacs and are only out for the money. Popularity News Stars to generating hate? Very Wrong.

By the way, it's called weather not wheather!

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By the way, it's called weather not wheather!

It only took 5 pages for someone to notice.><

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

It took some time to figure out whether it was appropriate to weather my thoughts about this misspelling! I didn't want to look like a wise guy!

Niagara Falls 100 years ago



In Laura Ingalls-Wilder's series of books "The Little House on the Prairie" she described living through this 1911 freeze in Nebraska.

It was one of her many fascinating stories telling a true historical background of an American family in "the good old days".

Her writings rival Mark Twain. Margaret writes:

Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year. She told the family that she and her neighbors woke up in the night feeling something was wrong.

It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise. They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses. Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.

Amazing pictures! Almost 100 years old. Can you imagine walking on Niagara Falls?


1911 Photos of Niagara Falls

...One of the mot impressive posts I've ever witnessed here on this board, Edith Grove -
even though it's completely 'OT'.

Great pictures - thanx for sharing!!

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

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Stoneage
It took some time to figure out whether it was appropriate to weather my thoughts about this misspelling! I didn't want to look like a wise guy!

LOL,at least now we have something to go on,,,,,,,,,,,other that wheather

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Stoneage
It took some time to figure out whether it was appropriate to weather my thoughts about this misspelling! I didn't want to look like a wise guy!

LOL,at least now we have something to go on,,,,,,,,,,,other that wheather

Marko,it's not too late.You can still edit.Since we are talking about WEATHER.