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Snow, Snow, Snow... And More Snow

Written by on December 3, 2007 – 5:05 pm27 Comments | 386 Read this

Don’t get me wrong, I love Canada. Like, we get won­der­ful sun­sets: I took these a cou­ple of days ago:

Winter Sunset Winter Sunset
Winter Sunset Winter Sunset

We already had a big snow storm a cou­ple of weeks ago. And now, this morn­ing, I woke up to that:

Looking At The Window

Look­ing At The Window

Trying To Open The Door

Try­ing To Open The Door

Yeah… For­tu­nately, I wasn’t work­ing today. How­ever, how am I sup­posed to get out?

Lots of Snow

Lots of Snow

Gonna Shovel!

Gonna Shovel!

The true Cana­dian way I guess. I grabbed the shovel and started dig­ging a way out:

Digging Trenches

Dig­ging Trenches

Life Goes On!

Life Goes On!

I man­aged to dig my way out and get the mail. Beau­ti­ful trenches, isn’t it? How­ever, there’s not way I can shovel the dri­ve­way and back out with the car… there’s at least 60 cm of snow. The snow banks on the side of the road are almost a meter high! So I’m home, on the coach and I watch the blizzard.

We’re hop­ing some­one will help us shovel tonight with a car. Another 20 cm of snow is expected tomor­row… Wish me luck to go to work!

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  5. Snow Fall !

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  • Lorna says:

    Hi. I live in the UK where we are suf­fer­ing from the snow at present (2 weeks worth). It’s nowhere near as bad as what you expe­ri­ence in Canada but when the UK get snow the whole coun­try seems to grind to a halt! My son is now into his sixth day off of school in two weeks and it’s dri­ving me mad. How do you Cana­di­ans cope and how severe has the weather got to get before they start clos­ing the schools?

    • Zhu says:

      I don’t have kids myself so I’m not always up-to-date with school clo­sures, but I can tell you it has to be pretty severe. For instance, freez­ing rain is always dreaded and can be very dan­ger­ous: this would be a school clo­sure day.

      When we have a major win­ter storm (20 cm of snow or more), most schools will close. Or somes­times school buses are can­celed and it’s up tp the par­ents to drive the kids to school.

      That said, because we have so much snow, we are also pre­pared and var­i­ous ser­vices are quite effi­cient. For instance, roads are cleared often, snow banks are removed once in a while, trucks put salt on road etc.

      Usu­ally, when there is a big bli­az­zard, it’s total chaos for a few hours and then it gets bet­ter (you can read .

      I’m sure you love your son very much but yes, 6 days out of school can be a bit too much :lol:

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