IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL MOTHER NATURE
Written by: Brian Neudorff
If you have been following this blog for sometime you might remember a post I did back in October titled, "MOSCOW MAYOR PROMISES NO SNOW THIS WINTER" here is the first paragraph of that post:
Could you imagine Mayor Bob Duffy, or Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks promising a Rochester winter with out snow? You'd probably think they lost their minds, but that is what the mayor of Moscow Russia is promising this winter. In an article published on Time.com, the mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, is promising to keep the snow away from the city by using the Russian Air Force to seed clouds before they reach the city. City officials hope that by seeding these clouds with cement powder, dry ice or silver iodide most of the snow will fall outside of the city.Apparently Moscow's mayor is not very good at keeping his promises. Last week while we focused on our first big snow storm of the season, Moscow was getting hammered with snow too. A 4 day record of 26 inches (or 67 cm) of snow fell on Russia's capital last week breaking the previous February record set back in 1966.
So much for controlling the weather, you can read more on this story here at the Moscow Times. I figure after telling you about this back in October I needed to update you on how things were going.
Should we off the fair mayor a glass of water to wash down his foot? That is very funny stuff Brian!!
ReplyDeleteSo what. Everyone makes mistakes. Especially if you compare that Moscow had its warmest and snow-less winters for the past few years. So they thought this year will be the same. But this year mother nature provided a big surprise for them. I wish we get that type of snow all winter long here in Rochester as well.
ReplyDeleteWell I thought this was an interesting article it is more than making a bad prediction. He promised NO SNOW and he was going to use the cities budget to "control" the weather. There is big difference in saying hey we won't have snow as a forecast or making promises and using money from the government to control it only to use more of that money to remove it.
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