I was promised a blizzard with 7 inches or more of snow. I was lied to, apparently... so far at least...
Oh, the weather outside is...
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Got a similar dusting of snow last night, the lightest snowfall herein more than two years.
Yet somehow it snowed enough I had to clean the snow off my satellite dish to watch ESPN.
Yet somehow it snowed enough I had to clean the snow off my satellite dish to watch ESPN.
Zardnaar
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9:59 am almost 20 already. Off to river soon.
stfoskey12
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We got 2.7" (6.9 cm) of snow yesterday. But it melted today because it got up to around 45°F (7°C). We've had a very mild January until a couple days ago, but it's supposed to remain colder than normal most of the coming week.
Zardnaar
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Hit 26 iirc.
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We don't. The highest drifts I can recall were about three to four feet, in the '60s, at least going by the picture in my photo album. That was on the acreage, and my dad attached part of a plow to the front of his jeep to clear enough snow so we could get in and out to the road. The county was supposed to clear the dirt road leading to the highway.
In the city, they alternate which sides of the street get the snow piled up (even-numbered houses in even-numbered years), and one year they piled the snow up to a height of about 3 feet in front of our house - without creating a gap so we could get to the street. I wasn't very well by that time, and no longer took the bus to get around. I needed access to the street.
My dad's health was of concern, as I knew he'd overdo trying to shovel the snow - which had quickly turned into a solid wall of ice. Trying to explain this to the City went nowhere, as they didn't give a damn that they'd created an impassible ice wall in front of our house and it would have taken me days to make any headway with an ice-chipper (I had enough strength for that, but not a shovel) - assuming the temperature would ever get warm enough to melt any of it.
So I finally told them, "Look, part of the ice pileup you created is blocking the storm drain. When that thing melts, there's going to be a huge flood in the middle of the street and you'll REALLY have a problem to deal with."
They finally came and did something to lower the height of the ice to about a foot, with a few bits that were lower. We still had to deal with the rest of it, but at least it wasn't a solid wall anymore.
TheCleanerDragon
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Weather was very nice today sunny with a high of 60. Almost whole of next week however will be freezing and wet, not looking forward to it.
Zardnaar
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Mid 20's forecast for next week.
We've had snow lately, and it got cold enough last night that I had to turn up the thermostat. Maddy's been burrowing under two blankets on my bed, so I have to be careful not to accidentally sit on her. She sleeps really soundly under there - didn't even hear me open her can of cat food this morning.
It was worse than that. Winter of 2007-2008 was more than 4 metres of snow in Ottawa and Montreal. I remember it very well, as it was my first experience with winter driving. The snow banks on the sides of roads were more than 10' high -- my wife would have to get out of the car at the end of our driveway to signal me when it was safe to pull on to the road.
Edit: this winter has been pretty similar, actually! We're set to hit 2 metres of snow by the end of the month. It's building up...
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Zardnaar
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"Canucks" is not a slur. We have an NHL team called the Vancouver Canucks.
Zardnaar
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It was the crazy part not Canucks.
You're almost as laid back as kiwis though you're the NZers of the NA continent
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It's a phrase that gets used a lot, and depending on context, it can meanIt was the crazy part not Canucks.
You're almost as laid back as kiwis though you're the NZers of the NA continent
or 
. I remember the sports commentator exclaiming, "That crazy Canuck!" when figure skater Kurt Browning pulled off one of his trademark moves, and did it flawlessly, at the Olympics (he's the first man to land a quadruple jump in competition). It was intended to convey admiration.
Broken_Erika
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Moar snow tomorrow, and one of my shoes no longer has a lace. So shovelling will be fun, in my crocks.
Plains-Cow
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Those look really cool. Do you live in a caravan?
Ahhh, a fellow sandals-in-snow shoveler!
Zardnaar
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No went camping for a week. We used tents.
If those are Celsius temperatures and there's no wind chill, that's not cold. It's approaching chinook temperatures (it's getting that time of year when we get warm air coming over the mountains from the Pacific; BC gets the rain and we get the light jacket/shirtsleeve weather for a few days).
