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Chevy366
August 4th, 2015, 04:58 AM
None since 1836 WOW ! Gullible Warning (Global Warming) Calamity Claim (Climate Change).
Keep your stick on the ice.
joecar
August 4th, 2015, 09:03 AM
I remember downtown Sydney being choked in knee-deep hail in 1967 or 1968.
joecar
August 4th, 2015, 10:07 AM
Or maybe it was 1965 or 1966.
IJ.
August 4th, 2015, 11:35 AM
Or maybe it was 1965 or 1966.

Just how Old are you Joe? ;)
joecar
August 4th, 2015, 11:46 AM
Just how Old are you Joe? ;)My DOB is 20/5/1962 :notacrook:

I forgot how to do the maths...:w00t:
IJ.
August 4th, 2015, 11:48 AM
My DOB is 20/5/1962

I forgot how to do the maths...
53... I know this as mine is 8/8/62 ;)

(for some reason I always thought you were younger)
joecar
August 4th, 2015, 11:49 AM
53... I know this as mine is 8/8/62 ;)Hey I'm glad I'm not the only one... :cheers:
IJ.
August 4th, 2015, 11:57 AM
Hey I'm glad I'm not the only one... :cheers:

I guess the old saying "He's forgotten more about cars than you'll know" is pretty accurate for us ;)
(Alzheimer's thing)
Chevy366
August 5th, 2015, 05:05 AM
I remember downtown Sydney being choked in knee-deep hail in 1967 or 1968.

Just going by story -- http://www.thestar.com/news/starweather/2015/07/ever-seen-this-before-kangaroo-feeds-in-the-snow-in-australia.html

Wait "hail" is not "snow".

This month in 1958 for me.

Was taken to a drag race when I was 6 years old, loved the smell of the fumes in the pits, I got to keep the guy's trophy that we went to see, he won on a default because the other guy's car blew up in the burnout box just before the Christmas tree stage.
The thing that sticks with me most was the guy that said I needed to be careful in the pits and proceeded to roll up a newspaper and hold it over a running top fuel rail dragster engine header which didn't appear to have anything coming from it, newspaper caught on fire instantly, was very careful from then on.

Ah, memories, still have the trophy to this day.
joecar
August 5th, 2015, 07:46 PM
Hail had the same effect as snow, taxi's were bogged down, Sydney's downtown was all blocked.

Yeah, us older folk learnt to lookout by being exposed to situations (and shown reality)... nowadays kids are overly protected, they are insulated from gaining real world experiences.
joecar
August 5th, 2015, 08:10 PM
That is a cool trophy, as a 6 year old you beat the guy in the other lane...!!!