Winter During Summer

Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006 - 1:32 a.m.

Here's another example of that Evil Global Warming:

This was the Christmas miracle � or, at least, the Australian bush version.

For three weeks, locals and firefighters have sat trapped, ringed by fire, alone and vulnerable at the top of Mount Buller.

Day after day, the bush burned in the valley below, the flames making charge after charge up the slopes, fanned by hot winds.

But then, at Christmas time, it happened. The winds eased, the prayed-for rains came, and the fire threat abated.

On Christmas Day itself, it snowed. A miracle. Lightly at first, but stronger as the day progressed, coating the mountaintop in an unseasonal white blanket.

As it snowed outside, those on top of the mountain sat down to Christmas lunch, and relaxed for the first time in more than three weeks.

Country Fire Authority volunteer and Mount Buller local Carly Reudavey said the fire fight had been a stressful time for all.

"It was intense up here for a long time, really intense. Nobody up here has had a day off in 25 days."

Luke Corbett said the rain and snow had been the break everybody needed.

"It's been pretty hard, the fire was burning out there, but there was smoke everywhere so you didn't know exactly where it was, it was hot and windy. This (weather) has come at the exactly the right time."

Yes sirree, we're all going to be flame-broiled because of Evil Global Warming.

Obviously, Heat Miser and Snow Miser did some bartering.

Thanks, fellas.

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I was saddened to hear of the passing of James Brown. He was one badass mothafucka, right up there with Elvis.

I never found much of his music interesting, but wow, he sure had several lifetimes squashed into one, didn't he. RIP.

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Barbaro is out of his cast and only has a slight limp.

Apparently if he can stand up on two legs for a few minutes at a time and do that thing he's supposed to do, his stud fees will earn his owners a little over a million dollars a year.

Good luck, horsie. I hope nothing you ever do for the rest of your life hurts anymore.

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And finally, there's a scientific analysis of the Christmas Eve flight of Santa Claus.

Please note that the author of the article presumes that Santa Claus is subject to the laws of Einsteinian physics.

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All right, there you go.

Have a good Tuesday, and if you observe it, Happy Boxing Day.

PS: Or fher gb qevax lbhe Binygvar!

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