Posted on 12/13/2013 8:40:00 AM PST by Morgana
ERUSALEM - The hilltop city of Jerusalem was paralyzed on Friday by a snowstorm of "historic" proportions, with its mayor calling out the army to help stranded motorists.
"We are battling a storm of rare ferocity," Mayor Nir Barkat said in a statement as snow in the Holy City piled up to around 37 centimeters, while outlying areas had much deeper drifts.
One weather forecaster described the snowstorm as "historic" on public radio.
Temperatures in the city were predicted to reach a high of two degrees Celsius during Friday and drop below freezing at night, with snowfall that started on Thursday continuing into Saturday.
Schools were closed for a second day and most residents appeared to be heeding advice to stay at home.
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Must be pretty from Mt of Olives!
Oh no, you see now it is called “climate change” because liberals realized the “global warming” scam was being exposed by cold weather, so they conveniently changed the term to “climate change”. This way they can blame hot weather AND cold weather on the evil CO2.
Remember the 1970s when it was called “the greenhouse effect”?
Signs do not help anyone trained to not read them.
The WAQF (Custodial authority of the Temple Mount) have been doing unauthorized excavations under the Temple Mount for years now, probably to exhume any evidence of the historical Jewish Presence and destroy it.
When heavy, wet snow piles up on an unsupported flat surface, such as the flat roof of a shopping mall, the results can be disastrous.
Just sayin’.
It’s the Mayans. Their calculations are correct, we misread them by a year!
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