Ah, a good tip. I must confess I had not considered the effect of a weight of snow over a prolonged period. Did think it sounded like fun to clear...but only until someone gets hurt

Well we have stayed put today. We have got tons of the white stuff and more is falling. They say up to 40cm by tonight.
And the snow plough has just kindly come along and given us a wall of at least 60cm across the end of the driveway so I couldn't get out if I wanted to!

The english school board has shut all schools as well.....

That's how it was in Alabama. Heck, even a prediction of snow would close everything and create raids on the grocery stores like they were going to be snowed in for a week. Of course they have no snow removal equipment, no salt for roads, and almost no drivers who can drive on snow, so it was safer to do that. Plus it only snows once every 5 years or so.

Here in Toronto, you are expected to get to work somehow. You may be late due to the extra traffic which will slow transit as well as drivers, but you are expected to get there. Thankfully today was my husband's off day anyway so we didn't have to worry about it this time.

Egad! Another hour and a half of shovelling to clear the driveway (and that with the assistance of a kindly neighbour with a huge blower). I'll be out there again later, when the plough has been to call.

We even had to dig a series of trenches on the back yard, so that the dog can get to his bathrooms.

It's all melting here, that always happens when I shovel.

I wish mine had. Some ba$tard just built a scale model (1:1) of the Hoover Dam at the end of my driveway.

LMAO, what a vision! !

I have a video but it's 10 meg so I don't think I can upload it.

That may actually be just as well; it features me in all my unco-ordinated glory.

do you do private shows??

I do have some, er, special interest, trampoline footage. This was a lively party.

The same...it wasn't that bad really - I've seen worse and stil gone into work!! I wish I could take snow days, but that excuse just doesn't wash unfotunately.

I read in the newspaper that the snowstorm Thursday night/Friday morning was the worst in 34 years. I'm not sure exactly what measure they were using. It was pretty rough, I have to say. It took my wife two hours to get from home to down near the airport (about 8 miles).

Ottawa's bendy buses proved that they do just that. In one case, round a lamppost.

I'm as stiff as a board this weekend; probably something to do with a total of three hours' shovelling on Friday. It would have been longer but for a kindly neighbour with an all-terrain snowblower.

hmm, is that a special torontonian creature, four legs, two very hairy- two not so hairy??

looked fun, what sort of dog is that?

The dog is a doodle; half poodle, half golden retriever. Half poodles are all the rage here; popular ones are ladradoodles, schnoodles and Australian Shepherd/Poodle mixes (not sure what they're called).

i've met a labradoodle before, first i've hard of the others though. I heard its the intelligence of a poodle and the willingness of a lab, unfortunate if its the the other way round. Australian shepherds are lovely dogs. one day when i'm retired I will get a dog in the meantime its just the mog