No snow

Cold, wet and windy at Damascus Gate

Once again the morning began bright and sunny though very very cold. It was only 3 degrees. And it hovered around there for the rest of the day. The dark storm clouds continued to blow past us toward Jordan because the winds were too strong. So we didn't get any snow ... though it rained heavily at times. Tel Aviv was and is flooded by the storm. It's in the coastal lowlands so it gets rain and flooded easily. Jerusalem is high up in the mountains so we rarely get both. Videos of inundated buses in Tel Aviv are going viral. The drainage system there is able to cope with this sudden burst of rain. Too many years of drought has made people forget what winter is, so it comes as a shock to the system. There is snow though in Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights. Now that's what winter used to be like 25 years ago. Well I for one am happy it didn't snow. I dread having to shovel it from the terraces. It's backbreaking work and I do it all by myself.     http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/in-israel/local/watch-northern-israel-painted-white-with-snow-33926

Palm Plaza today

Meantime exams have started at our school today while almost all the other schools have just completed their exams and are closing for the semester break. We're always 3 weeks behind all other schools because we start the school year later than others. That makes synchronizing timetables and teaching schedules with other schools quite a problem. Let's hope there'll be some changes soon.

Tomorrow we'll celebrate the memorial fo Blessed Gabriel Allegra. It'll be our usual conventual Mass and I doubt the other chinese religious will come because of the cold and rain.