Re: University of South Carolina e-Mail CompromisesStudentIDs

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:06:28 BST, Drsolly said:
> > I've heard American's say this before, and I've never understood why it is 
> > that Americans think we have bad teeth, fogs in London and a lot of rain.
>
> Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
> If the sun don't come, you get a tan
> > From standing in the english rain.
> I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
> I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob
>
>               -- Some brit named J. Lennon.
>
> Although it's the Scottish moors that are more famous for lots of rain/drizzle
> (and quite deservedly so - 300+ days a year with precipitation according to
> http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Climate/Younger/British_Climate.html)

As you can imagine, not many people live in the middle of the Scottish 
moors. Grouse, mostly.

http://americansamuck.blogspot.com/2006/01/rainy-london.html

Washington rainfall: 40 inches per year (and 23 inches of snow)
Chicago              36
Newark               42
Houston              45
Charlotte            43
Phoenix               7
London               23

So, apart from the desert parts of the USA, London gets less rain than 
many US cities.


> And London *did* have nasty air-clarity problems when most buildings were
> burning high-sulfur coal for heat.  Though it was more a very damp smog
> than a true fog....
 
Yes, but that was 50 years ago. 

I actually remember the Great Smog of London, 1952, it killed thousands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952
 
But in 1956, we passed the Clean Air act, and it's been good ever since.
In the USA, you also passed a Clean Air act, 14 years later.

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