Oh yes.

25cm and it's wet. That'll be me in a coronary care unit later today.

The roads are a nightmare. As usual, people have forgotten what snow is.

Last Saturday we were driving back from the market with the car full as an egg (two people, the generator on the picture thread, the haul from the cheese shop and half the contents of Costco) when we were diverted due to the road being closed by white out. I tired of the official diversion and went down a side road, ending up next to a car park, barely visible through the blizzard, containing several TR6s and some E types, it was like a dream, nirvana in the snow.

So you were quite well-equipped for being marooned?

I'm bloody glad we rented that car shelter. Half the driveway does not need shovelling. It's also bang up against the garage door, which means I didn't get hauled out of bed at five to scrape the car.

I will be shovelling multiple times today, however. The snow is wet and it will freeze if left.

Oddly, it only took my missus about ten minutes longer than usual to get to work. I was surprised when she called me so soon after leaving home.

Needless to say, Christmas has come early for the towing companies and body shops, and the tire places will be kept busy over the next few days by folk who are probably now regretting that they didn't put their winters on sooner. There has been a lot of ditch-parking this morning (and one woman was farking lucky that a mobile crane was passing just as she skidded off the road and parked in the Gatineau river).

Obviously you're not aware of the Canadian initiative of how to make a dishwasher clear snow.







You buy her a shovel !

I think we have all we need for the next cutting off. Blower, generator, hook up for the generator, logs, food, booze; everything but money.

I'll let you suggest that to her. Then I'll attend your funeral.

I have started to consider getting a generator. I really started thinking about it seriously on Monday, when we had a power cut, on the coldest November 25th in memory.

My MIL on the South Shore has got it sussed. After the great ice storm, which left her without power for, I think, two weeks, she and her late husband had a log burner installed in the basement. It is linked to the forced-air ducting and she has a huge stock of wood. And enough preserved/non-perishable food to last a large family for several weeks.

I'm not sure where she keeps the weapons.

Really....it's snowing in Ottawa/Gatineau? You don't don't see that this time of the year

Yes...I remember the amount of times I had to shovel my driveway. Love snow shoeing and snow boarding in Gat park though...my pass is already renewed

That's all fine and good but it doesn't make the well pump run, nor does it power the fish tank heater.

My generator investigations suggest that the best deals at the moment (assuming a need for 5,000 watts running) are a Generac for $1200 at TSC or a Champion for $850 at Costco. The Generac brand is highly regarded and that one's made in the USA. Nonetheless, we were on the way to get the Costco one when we came across the scratched and dented one we now have.

Note that the wiring to enable the generator to be hooked up isn't a trivial expense.

At this time of year, no, you generally don't.

Really....You obviously just arrived based on your previous posts. I was there before you arrived, and lived & worked on both sides

Snowmaggedon was cancelled here so we only have 12 cm of wet snow. I am bracing myself to shovel.

Just arrived? Try nine years. I struggle to remember it often doing this at this time of the year.

Oh dear.

Ottawa historically has more than 10cm of lying snow for only 1.6 days in November, compared to 16.5 days in December.

Significant snowfall (requiring shovelling of driveways etc) is not the norm in November.

Statistics from Environment Canada, collated and interpreted for your convenience here http://www.currentresults.com/Weathe...n-averages.php

Oh yeah stats of course...that is like looking at north on the map, and true north on the ground

Have you ever lived there mate...if you haven't, then you can hardly comment. Visiting doesn't count by the way