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   abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:09:21 JST abadidea

   Amsterdam is now on day three of societal meltdown due to upwards of two inches of snow

   I knew they’d be less prepared than Boston but this is worse than I anticipated. #amsterdam #netherlands

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:09:20 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @0xabad1dea Apparently most flights from and to NL are cancelled, too, German news mention

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:37:18 JST abadidea

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     both of the tram lines that pass by my house have individually derailed. they didn't even try it with the busses.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:37:18 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @0xabad1dea i remember how once Hong Kong (plumbing goes on the outside of the house) got a bunch of snow unexpectedly

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     Ratsnake Games 🔞 (ratsnakegames@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:40:13 JST Ratsnake Games 🔞

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @0xabad1dea Munich gets a bunch of snow every year, and it STILL catches everybody by surprise and grinds public transit to a halt every time

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:43:52 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @0xabad1dea Apparently Germany delivered de-icer to Schiphol as an emergency measure (or is in the process of delivering, not sure)

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:43:53 JST abadidea

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe yeah, I'm perplexed that apparently not even *Schiphol* has the equipment to keep w moderate amount of snow and ice off the runways – there's no high winds, and it's almost always ultracloudy here anyway...

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:45:54 JST abadidea

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark oof. I'm surprised it's even physically possible to get snow there.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:45:54 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @0xabad1dea I think everybody involved was surprised. MTR was stopped for the day iirc because nobody has accounted for the possibility

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:58:24 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Ratsnake Games 🔞

     @ratsnakegames @0xabad1dea oh, was it _just_ below zero temperatures? it would've been around 2013±2 years

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     Ratsnake Games 🔞 (ratsnakegames@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:58:25 JST Ratsnake Games 🔞

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @0xabad1dea you might be misremembering that, according to every source i could find there hasn't been snow in Hong Kong since 1975, and even that was on a single mountain peak

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 22:59:03 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Ratsnake Games 🔞

     @ratsnakegames @0xabad1dea i'm just really confused for why the MTR would stop running if it was below freezing with no snow... hm.

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:04:09 JST abadidea

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     • Ratsnake Games 🔞

     @whitequark @ratsnakegames rain -> temperature drop -> ice?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:04:09 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @0xabad1dea @ratsnakegames https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/wxinfo/pastwx/mws2021/mws202101.htm yeah

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 03:19:27 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @whitequark @0xabad1dea I once heard an Elizabeth Zwicky sysadmin war story from the late 80s or early 90s about how SRI's (I think) Bay Area machine room overheated during a rare Bay Area freezing snap ... because the AC pipes ran outside on the roof and no one had insulated them because why would you need to in the Bay Area of all places. So the sysadmins had to run around opening doors and windows to let all the outside freezing cold air in to cool the place down enough.