Snow in the North, Snow in the South
Jan. 31st, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaWinter is upon us!
Snow in the Golan Heights in the North, in Jerusalem and the area in the East and around the Dead Sea and the Ramon Heights in the South East and East.
On the Shore Plane (where yours truly resides and spends most of her time) it is windy, windy, windy, cold, cold, cold, with on and off rain, hail and sleet.
I am not happy.
I mean, I'm happy the Kineret (sea of Galilee) is rising up and not drying up to a dangerous level at this time, like it's been doing for the past decade or so and I'm happy people are enjoying the snow and that children are actually experiencing snow since it is a rare occurrence, the last time I saw snow in Israel was about 11 years ago.
The Deserts will probably be flooding in their nooks, crannies, waddies and valleys.
The natural world does what it needs to do. Pity people die when they get in the way; so far something like 12 people have been hospitalized with hypothermia (I don't know how many have died, but I know some have) mainly homeless and elderly people... duh, as they say.
As usual, the less developed (poor, blue-collar and some Arab) neighborhoods in large cities are flooding because there isn't a proper drainage system... anywhere! The street down the road where I live has become a river - it dies this annually.
And those who watch the News know that Gaza has become a sewage-y Venice and that in the West Bank the frost is that much stronger because the snow and frost coming from the mountains.
Those of you who love Winter... sorry to burst your bubble... like Hazel the Rabbit said in "Watership Down"; (I paraphrase) "People don't really love winter... they love being protected from winter".
This is possibly the longest post I've ever written about the weather beyond: "It's Cold!" or "I'm Boiling".
Snow in the Golan Heights in the North, in Jerusalem and the area in the East and around the Dead Sea and the Ramon Heights in the South East and East.
On the Shore Plane (where yours truly resides and spends most of her time) it is windy, windy, windy, cold, cold, cold, with on and off rain, hail and sleet.
I am not happy.
I mean, I'm happy the Kineret (sea of Galilee) is rising up and not drying up to a dangerous level at this time, like it's been doing for the past decade or so and I'm happy people are enjoying the snow and that children are actually experiencing snow since it is a rare occurrence, the last time I saw snow in Israel was about 11 years ago.
The Deserts will probably be flooding in their nooks, crannies, waddies and valleys.
The natural world does what it needs to do. Pity people die when they get in the way; so far something like 12 people have been hospitalized with hypothermia (I don't know how many have died, but I know some have) mainly homeless and elderly people... duh, as they say.
As usual, the less developed (poor, blue-collar and some Arab) neighborhoods in large cities are flooding because there isn't a proper drainage system... anywhere! The street down the road where I live has become a river - it dies this annually.
And those who watch the News know that Gaza has become a sewage-y Venice and that in the West Bank the frost is that much stronger because the snow and frost coming from the mountains.
Those of you who love Winter... sorry to burst your bubble... like Hazel the Rabbit said in "Watership Down"; (I paraphrase) "People don't really love winter... they love being protected from winter".
This is possibly the longest post I've ever written about the weather beyond: "It's Cold!" or "I'm Boiling".
