Nice blizzard !

scott craven

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someone needs to tell the weather gods that we don't do snow in Victoria....
cars all over the place, traffic at a standstill, welcome to winter !
 
better than 8 inches in Port now! Had to run out and collect some grits for The Pack - saw FIVE accidents on the way to the feed store, and three on the way back home. Damn near got smoked myself by a 4x4 who lost it on the 3rd Ave hill! Dropping below minus 10 tonight. Gonna be a LOT of carnage methinks...

Cheers,
Nog - Officially Housebound
 
I made the right call this morning by turning around early and staying home. Made it a catch up on the bookkeeping day. Listened to the radio and heard of a couple of 8 car pile ups on the route I would have been on. Also traffic at a dead stop at the bottom of a hill as the traffic lights went through 6 cycles and no one moved. Sounds like the Lions Gate at rush hour.
 
-9 here tonight with windchill of -18. Got 8-10inches of snow today south of Courtenay in 3 hours. Shut our boat down.
 
Didn't realize that Blanshard was basically closed yesterday until I turned onto it from Cloverdale. Then, over the next 45 mins, I made it 100ft and then parked. Cars at the light at Blanshard by Uptown couldn't make it up the hill and basically polished the road into sheet ice. Had to wait until the salt/sand trucks could pull the cars out of there and spread their loads on the road.

My neighbour's truck was parked in his driveway, and on it's own (nobody in it), slid down his driveway and planted itself right between two parked cars. Nobody hurt, nothing damaged. Incredible.
 
"Supposed" to turn to rain before noon. Yeah RIGHT! :rolleyes:
Pounding down snow all morning, only varying between huge fluffies and the dry little ones. Better than 2 feet in the hills, and around a foot now in town...

Gonna be another real mess methinks :p

Cheers,
Nog
 
There is actually snow in Vancouver!

Chilled Vancouver commuters faced their second day of winter hell today, as an additional ¼ centimeter of the peculiar white stuff fell, bringing the Lower Mainland to its knees and causing millions of dollars worth of damage to the marijuana crops. Scientists suspect that the substance is some form of frozen water particles and experts from Saskatchewan are being flown in. With temperatures dipping to the almost but not quite near zero mark, Vancouverites were warned to double insulate their lattes before venturing out.

Vancouver police recommended that people stay inside except for emergencies, such as running out of espresso or biscotti to see them through Vancouver 's most terrible storm to date. The local Canadian Tire reported that they had completely sold out of fur-lined sandals.

Drivers were cautioned to put their convertible tops up, and several have been shocked to learn that their SUV's actually have four wheel drive, although most have no idea how to use it.

Weary commuters faced soggy sushi, and the threat of frozen breast implants. Although Dr. John Blatherwick, of the Coastal Health Authority reassured everyone that most breast implants were perfectly safe to 25 below, down-filled bras are flying off the shelves at Mountain Equipment Co-op.

"The government has to do something," snarled an angry Trevor Warburton. "I didn't pay $850,000 for my one bedroom condo so I could sit around and be treated like someone from Toronto ..."
Don
 
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