Sunday, October 30, 2011

Of Snow and Polar Bears

You may have heard that it is snowing here along the Eastern seaboard--a very rare event in these parts, especially before Halloween. In any event, it looks like January out there, actually February, with that heavy, slushy, wet, heavy snow that is pretty miserable. We have about an inch accumulation and the trees still have leaves on them so the limbs are very heavy and breaking off al lover the roads.

All in all, pretty yucky and put me in the mood to watch the live streaming video of the annual polar bear migration through Churchill, Manitoba. Thanks to a grant from the Annenberg Foundatin, the migration is being streamed live at www.explore.org.

The problem is so many people logged on to watch the polar bears, the site crashed. So this video is highlights from October 28. You are welcome to try the site but I can't get it to stay up with any reliability. I am told they are working on it!

In the meantime, I am hoping our snow will be a distant memory by the time you read this.

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