Originally Posted by MillieF

I didn’t think that the weather was going to be a real issue for me either, and I threw myself into my first winter with gusto, tried cross country skiing, snow shoeing...the lot, I shoveled with the best of them...but after my first year I had a horrible light bulb moment when I thought ‘oh God, it’s going to snow next winter too’. In Atlantic Canada it’s always a matter of when, not if. It’s snowing fit to bust right now, which is, thankfully, unusual in May. But winter can start in October and you don’t see the ground again till late April and my neighbours swear you can’t plant anything till 1st June.

That can affect the psyche, it’s just non stop, relentless. I think I am coping with it better now, but there was a three year period when I was severely depressed and anxious whenever it snowed...which was practically every other day for six months. Whilst we are all more home bound, watch Fargo, both the film and the serial if you can, I think it portrays the daily bleakness that is the reality of this weather system. I’m not being negative, I like living here now, as a family it has been good to us. It’s just that the weather is not a bit like anything English - this place is weather on steroids and it can adversely affect you, even when you least suspect it.

Best of luck

Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5

start of the year is the worst. Any thaw in January just means the ice is smoothed out so it’s even more treacherous under the next fall of snow. Trails are unusable once this happens, even if they aren’t already having been tramped down by anyone else who uses them so there’s no grip and you’re stuck with walking the dog on icy gritty salty roads with snow banks on either side. Then there’s the constant sweeping up of grit, backache from walking carefully on ice risking death getting into and out of the house/school/wherever passing under lethal icicles knowing that when the snow eventually (mostly goes) you’ll be staring at dead leaves and bare branches until late May at least. And I only live in Ontario...

Originally Posted by dbd33

Last month I bought a convertible to use through the summer. Today it told me that the roads are icy and heated the steering wheel for me. May is hell.