33cm and still bloomin snowing!!
Dec 28th 2012 | 3:11 pm
#16
Assimilated Pauper
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 40,070
From: Ontario
Re: 33cm and still bloomin snowing!!
On Boxing Day we drove back from Albany NY. It took four hours to cover the 300 miles to Buffalo. It was snowing heavily but there were ploughs out and, anyway, it snows a lot in Buffalo and thereabouts so people just get on with it. We went to Premiere Wines and to the dog food shop and then went for beer and wings.
We then drove into Canada where it was snowing similarly but chaos reigned. It's less than 100 miles from the border to the house but it took six hours. The roads hadn't been ploughed, Canadians can't stay in a lane at the best of times and in snow they turn their "park anywhere" lights on (but not of course their head/tail lamps because the government deals with that) and veer back and forth across the road. Passing is a nightmare. Since there were no ploughs, any ramp with a slope to it, and that's pretty much all of them, was closed. All over the place faux utility vehicles, grey or beige in colour, were in ditches facing the wrong way.
As usual for snowy weather in Canada, we ended up diverting on to minor roads and having to drive through several inches of fresh snow. In this case we took the very scenic Guelph line but struggled to maintain 50mph due to depth of snow, hills and bends.
Maybe it was because Boxing Day is a kind of holiday, maybe it's because there's no way to know that snow's coming in winter in Canada, but Christmas this year really shattered the idea that Fort Erie in particular and Ontario in general is better set up for blizzard than, say, Watford, Hertfordshire.
We then drove into Canada where it was snowing similarly but chaos reigned. It's less than 100 miles from the border to the house but it took six hours. The roads hadn't been ploughed, Canadians can't stay in a lane at the best of times and in snow they turn their "park anywhere" lights on (but not of course their head/tail lamps because the government deals with that) and veer back and forth across the road. Passing is a nightmare. Since there were no ploughs, any ramp with a slope to it, and that's pretty much all of them, was closed. All over the place faux utility vehicles, grey or beige in colour, were in ditches facing the wrong way.
As usual for snowy weather in Canada, we ended up diverting on to minor roads and having to drive through several inches of fresh snow. In this case we took the very scenic Guelph line but struggled to maintain 50mph due to depth of snow, hills and bends.
Maybe it was because Boxing Day is a kind of holiday, maybe it's because there's no way to know that snow's coming in winter in Canada, but Christmas this year really shattered the idea that Fort Erie in particular and Ontario in general is better set up for blizzard than, say, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Dec 30th 2012 | 3:28 am
#17
Account Closed
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 0
Re: 33cm and still bloomin snowing!!
On Boxing Day we drove back from Albany NY. It took four hours to cover the 300 miles to Buffalo. It was snowing heavily but there were ploughs out and, anyway, it snows a lot in Buffalo and thereabouts so people just get on with it. We went to Premiere Wines and to the dog food shop and then went for beer and wings.
We then drove into Canada where it was snowing similarly but chaos reigned. It's less than 100 miles from the border to the house but it took six hours. The roads hadn't been ploughed, Canadians can't stay in a lane at the best of times and in snow they turn their "park anywhere" lights on (but not of course their head/tail lamps because the government deals with that) and veer back and forth across the road. Passing is a nightmare. Since there were no ploughs, any ramp with a slope to it, and that's pretty much all of them, was closed. All over the place faux utility vehicles, grey or beige in colour, were in ditches facing the wrong way.
As usual for snowy weather in Canada, we ended up diverting on to minor roads and having to drive through several inches of fresh snow. In this case we took the very scenic Guelph line but struggled to maintain 50mph due to depth of snow, hills and bends.
Maybe it was because Boxing Day is a kind of holiday, maybe it's because there's no way to know that snow's coming in winter in Canada, but Christmas this year really shattered the idea that Fort Erie in particular and Ontario in general is better set up for blizzard than, say, Watford, Hertfordshire.
We then drove into Canada where it was snowing similarly but chaos reigned. It's less than 100 miles from the border to the house but it took six hours. The roads hadn't been ploughed, Canadians can't stay in a lane at the best of times and in snow they turn their "park anywhere" lights on (but not of course their head/tail lamps because the government deals with that) and veer back and forth across the road. Passing is a nightmare. Since there were no ploughs, any ramp with a slope to it, and that's pretty much all of them, was closed. All over the place faux utility vehicles, grey or beige in colour, were in ditches facing the wrong way.
As usual for snowy weather in Canada, we ended up diverting on to minor roads and having to drive through several inches of fresh snow. In this case we took the very scenic Guelph line but struggled to maintain 50mph due to depth of snow, hills and bends.
Maybe it was because Boxing Day is a kind of holiday, maybe it's because there's no way to know that snow's coming in winter in Canada, but Christmas this year really shattered the idea that Fort Erie in particular and Ontario in general is better set up for blizzard than, say, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Snow clearing in Canada just sucks, no matter where I have lived, they just can't seem to manage to get it right.
When I lived in Milwaukee and commuted to Chicago, I never worried about my commute, unless it was a huge blizzard, the highways were always cleared and salted, and plows up and down the road.
They just can't seem to manage snow clearing in Canada, and its kind of confusing.
Dec 30th 2012 | 4:22 am
#18
.
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 20,188
Re: 33cm and still bloomin snowing!!
Snow clearing in Canada just sucks, no matter where I have lived, they just can't seem to manage to get it right.
When I lived in Milwaukee and commuted to Chicago, I never worried about my commute, unless it was a huge blizzard, the highways were always cleared and salted, and plows up and down the road.
They just can't seem to manage snow clearing in Canada, and its kind of confusing.
When I lived in Milwaukee and commuted to Chicago, I never worried about my commute, unless it was a huge blizzard, the highways were always cleared and salted, and plows up and down the road.
They just can't seem to manage snow clearing in Canada, and its kind of confusing.
