Through The Storm
On Monday night, while I was outside getting some fresh air smoking a last cigarette, I noticed a few flurries in the sky. But when I woke up the next day, there was just a bit of frost on the grass. So, when Tuesday night I saw flurries again, I thought it would be gone the next morning.
I was wrong.
 Driving… |
 Slippery Roads |
The first snow of the season. Another Canadian trick: going from mild weather to blizzard, from plus temperatures to minuses, from fall cold to winter freezing your ass cold. This is drastic. Clear sky to 25 cm of snow. Ouch.
 Falling Ice! |
 Downtown |
Snow is beautiful though. Especially fresh snow like that. It’s like seeing the whole city coated with a fresh layer of paint. We are all used to it, or so you would think, but the first snow is always a shock. “What? Already?”. Cars don’t start or get stuck in the driveway, streets and roads are extremely slippery, buses are late…
 Cold News |
 At Night |
Driving in the snow is always a challenge but Canadian cars are pretty good at that. Generally speaking, people drive much slower and are quite careful, so it all works out pretty well. Phew. It would be in France…
 Snow Mountain |
 Covered With Snow |
Downtown is usually a bit better because the streets are salted early in the morning. But still, people walk around confused and cold and there’s slush everywhere.
Since I grew up on the Atlantic coast in France, I had never seen snow before I came to Canada. This is my 4th winter, and I’m still excited. That said, winters are long here, and after 6 months of struggling in the cold and with ice and snow, we get tired of it.
Yep, we get tired of it. Cause you know what? This snow isn’t gonna melt before next April or May.
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In a week or two that’ll look like us here in Michigan. Yep, I just checked…considerable snow Dec 3–8, with a break on the 6th. We’ve had patchy accumulation, but we would expect to have been dumped on by know (at least a few inches).
Yeah, I get tired of it too. Ours sticks around until March or April though. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t drive for a living.
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I am so so jealous, Zhu!
I want snow too!
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I wish for snow too!
But I know it’ll be torturing if it’s gonna last for so many months. And not to forget all those extra clothes that wrap our bodies everytime we have to go out.
But still, I want snow…
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I just notice that we are exactly 12 hrs apart!
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We missed the worst of this storm in Toronto, so we just have a sprinkling on the grass now. This will be my eighth Canadian winter — you’ve got to love ‘em — I’m trying
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