The Weather in Toronto!
Dec 3rd 2007, 1:32 pm
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Re: The Weather in Toronto!
Tapped it a couple of times with the shovel, and when it didn't dent and I didn't sink through the top case hardened layer I though better off the whole idea of clearing it anyway, and went and chiseled the car out of its coating of ice instead.
Fortunately our neighbour with his ATV and plough offered to have a go at the drive later. Hes still in the honeymoon phase of that relationship. Somehow I dont think I'll be so lucky come February.
I did laugh when I saw the snowblower sale and repair place I drive past on the way to work having his driveway cleared by a guy on a tractor with a big blade...
Oh well, this time next week I'll be cruising the Caribbean
Dec 3rd 2007, 1:37 pm
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Dec 3rd 2007, 1:59 pm
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We're hearing reports of colleagues having trouble getting into work in Toronto and Ottawa.... skivers or skaters? 
Dec 3rd 2007, 2:02 pm
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Dec 3rd 2007, 2:05 pm
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My colleague who lives up by the Ottawa river couldn't get to the end of his (long) driveway, even with 4x4, so he never made it to my place this morning, and I didn't fancy making it to TO anyway and then getting stuck there as the freezing rain we have is heading that way apparently.
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour.
Dec 3rd 2007, 2:22 pm
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Driving here brings all sorts of interesting aspects to a journey. Like for instance praying that the next set of traffic lights don't turn red just as you approach because one knows one is not going to stop in time. Or going down a hill towards a major junction (as I did this morning) and ever so slightly putting one's foot on the brake to slow down the momentum of the car without going into a skid and colliding with the side of a truck, or several trucks.
Again this morning, turning right and being faced with the front end of a giant snow plough heading towards me on the wrong side of the road. I went around it as there was nothing coming in the opposite direction but it didn't bother to slow down!
The people in the UK with their BMW X5's and other SUV's they use to take their little sprogs to school in the dry and annoy other road users should be made give them as charity items to us. We have a bigger need.
Dec 3rd 2007, 2:44 pm
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An X5 with those big fatass all seasons! That would be a nightmare in these conditions.
Dec 3rd 2007, 2:56 pm
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Dec 3rd 2007, 3:05 pm
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Well I can honestly say that in 33 years of driving, I have never taken out a car in such bad conditions. I took my son to work at SportsChek in Orleans (plug) at 9am. Clearing the snow from the driveway was ok because it was very powdery. Although it now has a passing resemblance to the parting of the Red sea. I'm half expecting Moses and his followers to knock on the garage door asking if they have come the right way to the promised land.
Driving here brings all sorts of interesting aspects to a journey. Like for instance praying that the next set of traffic lights don't turn red just as you approach because one knows one is not going to stop in time. Or going down a hill towards a major junction (as I did this morning) and ever so slightly putting one's foot on the brake to slow down the momentum of the car without going into a skid and colliding with the side of a truck, or several trucks.
Again this morning, turning right and being faced with the front end of a giant snow plough heading towards me on the wrong side of the road. I went around it as there was nothing coming in the opposite direction but it didn't bother to slow down!
The people in the UK with their BMW X5's and other SUV's they use to take their little sprogs to school in the dry and annoy other road users should be made give them as charity items to us. We have a bigger need.
Driving here brings all sorts of interesting aspects to a journey. Like for instance praying that the next set of traffic lights don't turn red just as you approach because one knows one is not going to stop in time. Or going down a hill towards a major junction (as I did this morning) and ever so slightly putting one's foot on the brake to slow down the momentum of the car without going into a skid and colliding with the side of a truck, or several trucks.
Again this morning, turning right and being faced with the front end of a giant snow plough heading towards me on the wrong side of the road. I went around it as there was nothing coming in the opposite direction but it didn't bother to slow down!
The people in the UK with their BMW X5's and other SUV's they use to take their little sprogs to school in the dry and annoy other road users should be made give them as charity items to us. We have a bigger need.
Dec 3rd 2007, 3:14 pm
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Dec 3rd 2007, 3:14 pm
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I doubt that the car came with snow tyres already fitted. You buy a set and take them (and the car) to a garage to have them fitted. You then spend the next few months tripping over the Summer tyres in the garage.
Dec 3rd 2007, 3:15 pm
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