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Forty Days and Forty Nights

It is, as the national newspapers have noted, rather weathery on the West Coast this winter. According to the Environment Canada website, 351 cm precipitation (239% of the norms established between 1971-2000) including 40 cm snow (1212% of the norms) fell during November at the Victoria International airport, setting a record for the month. December has so far been marked by gales (125 kph the night before last), and prolonged power-outages on the Island and Mainland. One long-held ambition of secular society has been achieved, if the correspondence on the Globe and Mail website is any indication: we can at last blame the weather on the government. “They” are not doing enough about global warming.