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Nice blizzard today.
:eek:

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Hurricane force gusts and power outages on the way, I suppose.

(At least it's cold enough that the snow isn't sticky.)

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There's no such thing, except perhaps for people who don't absolutely need to venture out.

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It's blowing in so many different directions right now that none of it seems to be landing anywhere.

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Hope Millie is surviving it !

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:(
We had a very big snowstorm a few weeks before xmas. It all melted as it wasn't that cold. We had a non white xmas and most of January was nice, if cold.

In the last week we had two big storms dumping a ton of snow. The bank at the back of the drive has never been bigger and another 30cm was expected tomorrow. Barely into February.

Unfortunately I just checked the latest forecast. It's another blizzard and 40-50cm expected instead of 30.

:eek::eek:

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I like the ones with M and Ms, or. Dime bars best.

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It rained here today. I don't think any snow is in the forecast.

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Is snow every going to arrive? Got a ski pass :(

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Millie hasn't posted since Jan 14th. I too hope she's OK.

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I am! Very many thanks! I have just found it really bloody difficult...I have done every year, but it gets worse...not better. I really have missed you all...can I come home? Please? I do apologise. I just sometimes want to shout and scream and be most unpleasant...I'm hoping it may be behind me for this season.

Some days I wake up and I just can't cope - I do now seem to be diagnosed with 'classic SAD syndrome' but that doesn't help - giving me medication won't work, as I won't take it and I just need life to be more sunny!

New Brunswick is a bit Pitsville at present.....Fredericton is horrid - but I think Bristol is far worse...? Deep deep Pitsville?

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Insist on going somewhere nice a warm for spring break, think of it as a medical expense. It'll give you something to look forward to, plus, after you come back it'll be warmer where you are. Go down to Boca or somewhere equally south of Palm Beach. It can't that expensive to fly down for couple of weeks and stay at medium range hotel near the beach?

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Glad to have you back but u glad to hear you are suffering. Take it out on posters in here! Especially Oink.

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Sorry to hear you're suffering Millie. I know it's not really much consolation, but the fog and damp and rain on the Island have been awful for AGES. No sun for you in this direction. Take Oink's boat down to the Keys.

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The problem is that sunny days at this time of the year tend to be -30 with the windchill.

It was all so good mid January. I thought we were going to have a repeat of about three winters ago. Now it looks like we're on the way to breaking records...at least in my time here.

I'd rather not have it, but I think it makes a difference with the family being Canadian. It's all they've really known so it just makes it a bit easier for me.

That and not having to get up and out for things like work and stuff.

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Got maybe 20cm here near Chicago. You'd have thought the world was ending. Took a stroll downtown to find everything had closed because of the exceptional weather. Looked like pretty standard Canadian style snow amounts to me. Buses and Trains were still making a go of it. That's public service. Those of private employment...not so much.

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Welcome back! Oink's advice is spot on. Socialising is a good tonic too (especially if gin is involved). Anyway, spring is around the corner.

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Heard on the radio this morning - Most January snow for 40 years and the last 7 days looks like an all time record.

There's another 25-35cm due Thursday that wasn't there when I checked just three hours ago :(

Somebody should invent some kind of protective dome for the city.

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:lol:

Or maybe just dig the whole city up and move it 1600 miles south! ;)

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There comes a point when snow is removed via trucks to a dumping ground outside the city. It doesn't happen very winter but it likely doesn't happen this early in winter.

Apparently they would have begun that process in the last couple of days but for Saturday's big storm followed by Monday's. The snow crews have been overworked already and if they'd been removing snow, they'd have not been in a fit state for the latest plowing needed.

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You have my permission to quit the video immediately after the big splash.

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Yes it was a long train runnin'...........

It made CBC news this morning - at least in NB - for the number of hits. Up from 600k last night to 1.8m this morning.

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What was so good about it? I watched up to when the camera got covered by snow and a few seconds after.

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Well, it's not something one sees every day. The best bit was the snow ridge from the street plow being smashed to smithereens. Take that Mr Snow Ridge.

What really struck me though was there's this bloody great train approaching and cars are still crossing the tracks. I suppose that's the North American way, not having barriers taking the choice away.

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Well for one British rail or whatever they are now would have had the wrong kind of snow.

I thought it was spectacular, but the I love trains. Choooo choooo!

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http://goo.gl/maps/jk1qE

In the UK most of them are like this. This was one close to where I lived. Chocolate box level crossing with flowers on the gates.

I wonder what happens if the gates close on you as you are crossing and you get trapped in no mans land:eek:

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Sort of orgasmic, dontcha think?

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to be fair, the last vehicle crosses a good few seconds before the bells (and presumably lights) start doing their thing. And with that bloody great snowbank in the way they probably wouldn't have seen the train anyway. It's a half minute after that that the train actually reaches the crossing. I've noticed that even crossings with barriers close much later here than they do in the UK, where it seemed you could be sitting for four or five minutes waiting for a train to actually show up.

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There are some barriers but I think the Township or Municiplaity has to pay for them. The crossings in town don't even have the train whistling though they do have lights. I walked from downtown Peterborough to the Mall along the railway track. The disused one I thought but got a bit of a shock when a train went by.

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Probably watched too many snow train videos when my son was in his train fiend days.

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I never outgrew trains...:lol:

I'd work on a train if I could (too old now, too much pain to do that sort of job) but I did spend a good 10 years applying to various railroads.....Some things just are not meant to be.

That is what I loved about living in Ontario, I could just go and take a train ride if I wanted to and see a nearby town. Can't really do that in BC, only trains we have aside from Via long haul, and overpriced tourist train are transit commuter trains.

Oh if only I had a house, I'd have the best model rail road layout ever...lol



If rain could be a blizzard, we are having that today, this even a lot of rain for BC standards to fall so quickly.

A couple parts of the highway are flooded, but with there only being one way in and out really, they are letting folks through still. South of Pemberton (about 20 mins north of Whistler, there is apparently 3-4 feet of water standing on the highway according to the radio traffic lady.

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You'll get yourself a house at some point. Until that time, there are some good virtual train set apps available for tablets and computers.

Sounds wet.

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And another blizzard due Sunday. 50+ expected with this one :eek:

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Maybe you need to move to Sooke.

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I suppose if we sold the house and the duplex we could maybe buy half a house there. :lol:

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Or sell your car and buy this...

125-6971 West Coast Rd,Sooke, British Columbia  V9Z0V1 ( 343752 )

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Car? What car?

I have a $170 mountain bike. :lol:

It says Timeshare/Fractional

I wonder how long you get it for.

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That's eco friendly. How do you get the groceries home?

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Some by bike and big backpack. We can get quite a lot in a couple of smaller supermarkets 5/10 minutes walk and for bigger/heavier stuff bus/walk to store (depends who's going) and taxi back.

It's amazing how many bags of groceries and a wheelchair you can get in a taxi.

I've never driven, the wife did once upon a time before some eye problem and mother in law/stepkids don't drive either.

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That's amazing. I didn't think anyone (almost) in Canada didn't drive these days. Especially with the winter.