It 'should' be a-snowing here in Fredericton, and like Bats, we were mobilised and ready for action....but instead it's 12!!! Degrees and we are due 100mm of rain and 80 mile an hour wind gusts....I wish I had bought a canoe instead on my jolly electric shovel. It doesnt look at all pleasant in Ontario, my warmest hugs to you all out there

Thanks for the Hugs Millie

You are welcome sweetie!

I forgot to mention...it only rained, but it was still deemed a 'snow' day, so no school

I suppose this would be a bad moment to remark that it is a-snowing not in Richmond Hill?

Souvy: my people will be in touch with your people on the copyright issue.

I do believe, and not erroneously, that your phrase was "it is not a-snowing..." Souvy used a contraction and so his phrase is completely different..

[QUOTE=Novocastrian;11011144]I suppose this would be a bad moment to remark that it is a-snowing not in Richmond Hill?

Souvy: my people will be in touch with your people on the copyright issue.[/

Richmond Hill sounds like a bloody magical spot, can't help just-a-saying!

I think Madame Counsel that you should commission one or more of your legal clerks to check the records.

I think you will find that i am correct.

At that price, $6000, you could look at running a propane generator instead of using Ontario Hydro. We're tempted by that idea.

Our logic for spending the money on the hook up and all is that the power usually goes out for a week each winter, three days here, four days there. Long enough that the value of the frozen food lost each year is greater than the cost of the generator and gubbins. We also lose power once a week for shorter periods but can live with that.

$6000 would be a propane self starting etc super generator, like a pool box, and we thought about it. We lose power for shorter periods here and there. Longest was 6h so far. And then the odd longer period. We figured though that the generator linked to the Hydro is our best option in the moment. Still bloody expensive. We don't have a wood burning fire place. Biggest mistake when we build. We never used it in the townhouse now out here it would be fab. So when Hydro goes, the house gets cold and in spring the sump pump won't work, that what we mainly need it for.

To be fair the flow of the conversation went like this:
"Really....it's snowing in Ottawa/Gatineau? You don't don't see that this time of the year"
"At this time of year, no, you generally don't."
"Snow is fairly common in November surely."

And...it is fairly common if you look at the weather records. Snow in November is to expected in fact. Just like torrential thunderstorms in August.

If people are arguing over the amount of said snow then they're running a sideshow as it's pretty irrelevant.

I contend that, as usual, I'm accurate

amount of snow and irrelevant didn't come to mind when I saw the white mass that covered my drive.

Hardly the November norm here in Edmonton, either. In the past 10 days we've had 50cm, that's 50% of our usual winter's worth. Now there's another major storm with blizzard conditions forecast for Sunday night. Good here, innit?

But stiff upper lip and all that. Funny how we Brits, when we go back to the UK, brag up the cold and snow here, and laugh about how an inch of snow over there brings the country to a standstill.

Forecast high of +10C here today in St John's.

(Blowing a hoolie though)

-13 on the car thermometer this morning (mind it's a Volkswagen, the electrical bits aren't very trustworthy).