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The Cuddly One
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Milan, Italy
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Pink Snow again!
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We arrived at our weekend cottage yesterday evening to find the snow ploughs had done their usual performance of tearing up tarmac, damaging parked cars, blocking our driveway and similar socially valuabvle functions. And then joy of joys the heating has failed and we have at least one cracked pipe. Solution: Go and camp at that den of iniquity known as Milu's country estate or weekend shack. This morning I wake look out of the window and the damn snow has turned pink, it is totally gross! Milu and my husband Armando have gone into town for essential supplies and to gee up the plumbers at my place a bit, there's a girl hogging the best bathroom so I'm having a play with Milu's digital camera, I'm not sure how well the image reproduces but the reality is horrid. It's also supposed to be corrosive! 
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And it turned pink, how???????
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Fine sand is brought over by wind from the Sahara. It snowed again and the sand was absorbed from the air and carried down. I had a white car turn pink from sand in rainwater a few years ago. It was a major cleaning job to fix. My first reaction this morning was that my eyesight had gone as it also reflects less light. It also doen't inspire snowball fights or snowman building. Yech!
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When I was in Colorado (Keystone) during the summer there was still snow on the high peaks, and some pink patches. I was told that it was some kind of radioactive stuff (no kidding) ...
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Possibly better than yellow snow.....
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It's the first sign that your government is going to allow same sex marriages......
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Isabo, Where (approximately) is this?
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My mom is currently in Nice, France. All the cars there are a shade of red from the Saharan dust. She also told me that my grandmother's 5th story balcony has thick layer of mud from the sand laden rain.
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wow, that is amazing! i need to go an buy a globe.
thanks for the cool picture! cliff
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vott does ziss do?
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hmmm....
wait... what's this?? AHAAAA!! (pointing wildly at picture of pink snow) HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAA and they said they'd never find evidence of WMD!!
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ROFL  That's the best justification for the state of my house garden and garage to date.
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see!!!?!!
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I lived in Germany for a number of years and I remember the car being covered with red sand on several occasions. I was told at the time that it was from the Sahara. Also, having been in a Sahara sand sorm first-hand in Morrocco I find it completely believable that some of that crap would end up being blown over to Europe.
But...the sand wasn't so bad, it was the Chernobyl fallout that really sucked 
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