Snowstorm galore

I've been complaining about the lack of a proper swedish winter for the better part of December, January and February. Well, no more... It started snowing about halfway through last week. We've received all the normal winters snowfall during a couple of days! Complete disaster for the infrastructure. Most of southern Sweden came to a complete halt. Might I remind you that I live in a country that lies closer to the North Pole than the Equator...

In spite of media warning people about driving to work some idiots still took their chances. The result was more than two-hundred separate accidents. Luckily very few fatal ones. And yesterday, when things started to clear up a bit, it started to rain sub-zero. This means it rained, but the ground (and everything else) was so cold the raindrops froze instantly on impact. People still went out to drive. The insurance companies will have a hard time.


I haven't been following what goes on in the US lately, but I read an article about US soldiers coming back injured from Iraq, often handicapped, back to a life where they're supposed to fend for themselves, by themselves. At the same time some people are getting richer and richer, especially the people around President Bush.

I must say I'm amazed that american media, once among the freest in the world, now seems to be very quiet?