Of storms and the dogs of Sochi

As wretched as the winter has been for much of the US, I really think it has been worse in the UK. We’ve had enough snow and ice to last two lifetimes, but flooding causes more devastation and the flooding there has been relentless. We’ve been posting photos of monster waves crashing ashore in the southwest. This shot of the sea about to engulf an inn in Dorset is as terrifying as any I’ve seen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26150788 And inland, the rivers are overflowing and there seems no end in sight to the misery this winter is wreaking on both sides of the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, I hope all in the path of the storm ironically named Pax came through it okay. Where I live, we got seven inches with the first round, then another few inches when the tail end hit. But snow is far preferable to ice, so I won’t complain. And if it is any consolation, just imagine how much worse people had it in the MA during bad winters.
To cheer us all up, here is a very nice story about one of the American Olympic athletes determined to save a litter of puppies in Sochi. You’ve probably read that the city’s stray dogs were being rounded up and put to death before the games began. Russian animal lovers rallied to save them, spiriting as many dogs as they could out of Sochi to homes they’d found for them. Here is a link to that story, too.
http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-news/20...
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sochi20...