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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Mar 19th 2018, 1:25 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Bright sunshine here and expected to stay that way. Frikkin cold, though!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 21st 2018, 3:23 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

We've only had 33cm so far, next to none of it in the last ten days. Last year we had 77cm and the year before that 91cm.

In addition, it's got above zero almost every day for the last week and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 6th 2018, 5:50 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

I just paid my Hydro bill, here in tropical Quebec. It was $113.

That's equalised. We got a refund last year and our equalised payment was cut by $20 a month.

There are some benefits to living...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Feb 5th 2018, 10:03 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Dunno why it would be called that. They are all over the place in QC. The person on Reddit might live in Ottawa.

Different bylaws. In Gatineau it just has to be X feet from the road/sidewalk, fire...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2018, 4:18 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Then click on the link I posted. It's all there.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2018, 12:43 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

You can get very detailed numbers here.

https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html

Just click on the city, or province and then pick the location. When you have your location, scroll down to the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2018, 12:24 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

You had 63.8cm in January, as of yesterday.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 31st 2018, 11:15 am
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

You've had 132cm this winter, about 10cm less than us. We're about 30cm down on this time of year last year but if February and March do what they did last year, we should pass the average total of...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2018, 8:15 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Mine is held down by the rebar sunk into the driveway (same holes every year) and I let snow/ice seal the flaps.

That photo suggests little or nothing holding the thing down.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2018, 6:07 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

So just not attached properly then?

Or you had one end closed and the other open. Instant balloon.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2018, 5:56 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

With 2-foot bits of rebar holding it down?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2018, 5:45 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Yes you can here. Mine, like the ones in the photo, abuts the garage. Souvette can get from the house to the ice-free and snow-free car.

I like that. I don't have to bust my gut at an unearthly...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 30th 2018, 11:56 am
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

We rent a snow shelter for our driveway. The guys come and put it up and then come back a few months later to take it away.

This time, the guys were putting mine up and watching our neighbour try...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 24th 2018, 1:03 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

I witnessed a wonderful act of random kindness yesterday.

I knew I had to clear the 9cm of snow with several mm of ice on top of it because it was going to warm up a bit and then freeze again.
...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 13th 2018, 11:07 am
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

We had everything going yesterday. From +12 to -12, fog, rain, ice pellets, freezing rain, snow and a flash freeze.

Yuk.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 8th 2018, 12:00 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

We drove through Montreal over the weekend on the way back from Quebec. We passed a gas station that was selling gas for 15 cents more than the one where we'd filled up 30 minutes earlier. The odd...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 7th 2018, 5:01 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Yesterday was a pain in the arse. We packed the car for the 450km trip home, only to find that it wouldn't start. The Boy jumpstarted it and we set out for 450km of blowing snow and black ice (even...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jan 1st 2018, 5:28 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Cold as a bar steward here in the boonies just outside Quebec City. We've been here a week and my trips outside have been limited to a grocery/booze run, shuttling between the house and the wood shed...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2017, 12:44 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

One should not let lithium batteries get cold. It knackers them. A problem with the Tesla idea is that Li batteries lose about a third of their distance charge at minus 15. That sort of thing happens...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 14th 2017, 1:31 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Bright sunshine here too. The cat is looking wistfully through the patio doors, wanting to go outside because it's sunny. The daft bint doesn't seem to understand that there is a 44-degree difference...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 14th 2017, 1:06 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Wimp.

Try the -22 (-33) we've got this morning!
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 10th 2017, 4:49 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Same here a few inches of fluffy. It only took the missus 15 minutes with a shovel. The blower will be out in a couple of days, though, I'm sure.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 1:20 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

No. The windows in my son's place were two sliding windows with a gap between them. The new ones are just a single unit containing two panes of glass with a small gap between them.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 8th 2017, 12:31 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

That translates to "old". My son's place was the same. Nearly all the windows have now been replaced with modern double-glazing. It makes a hell of a difference.
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 5th 2017, 2:50 pm
Replies: 481
Views: 30,106
Posted By Souvy

Re: Winter 2017-18

Same here. Warmish, leaden skies and chucking it down. I could do with some snow and blue sky.
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