Snow in Vancouver!
Jan 29th 2008, 2:01 am
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Snow in Vancouver!
As I sit here at 6:30 am, the radio is doing non-stop reports on school closures and road chaos, snow reports. We have about 3 inches of snow out there and I can't wait to start shovelling!!! The exercise will replace my usual 7 km walk today.
I think I'd better leave before the Calgary and back east lot start throwing their snow blowers at me, LOL.
I think I'd better leave before the Calgary and back east lot start throwing their snow blowers at me, LOL.
Jan 29th 2008, 2:03 am
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Re: Snow in Vancouver!
As I sit here at 6:30 am, the radio is doing non-stop reports on school closures and road chaos, snow reports. We have about 3 inches of snow out there and I can't wait to start shovelling!!! The exercise will replace my usual 7 km walk today.
I think I'd better leave before the Calgary and back east lot start throwing their snow blowers at me, LOL.
I think I'd better leave before the Calgary and back east lot start throwing their snow blowers at me, LOL.
Did you plug in your block heater?
Jan 29th 2008, 2:04 am
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Re: Snow in Vancouver!
I woke up to green grass again this morning, and I don't have a snow blower or else I'd lend you it 
Jan 29th 2008, 2:08 am
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Jan 29th 2008, 2:26 am
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Re: Snow in Vancouver!
3 inches? That's not snow it's a particularly heavy frost!
Here in the wild East the temp has gone from -14C to +5C and we've had torrential rain. The garage is flooded, the drain isn't working and I have a pool of water 8 inches deep on the drive. Some kind of pump/shop vac will be procured at lunchtime to aid clearing all this before the next freeze!
Here in the wild East the temp has gone from -14C to +5C and we've had torrential rain. The garage is flooded, the drain isn't working and I have a pool of water 8 inches deep on the drive. Some kind of pump/shop vac will be procured at lunchtime to aid clearing all this before the next freeze!
Jan 29th 2008, 4:13 am
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Snow in BC
Upper Fraser Valley, 8" so far, another 6" or so on the way, barely see the end of the drive. Currently -10°C, wind chill -22°C. Drifts up to 24" on the west side of the buildings.
Nothing as bad at the flat lands are getting, but still pretty chilly for the wet coast.
Enjoy, its back to normal by weeks end - rain.
Nothing as bad at the flat lands are getting, but still pretty chilly for the wet coast.
Enjoy, its back to normal by weeks end - rain.
Jan 29th 2008, 4:22 am
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Re: Snow in BC
It reminds me of being back in England. 3 inches of snow and schools are closing, police are warning people not ot drive unless they really have to.
Out of the 15 people who should have been in, from my department this morning, 8 have called in to say that they can't make it cos of the snow.
I'm straight off up to Grouse after work tonight!
Out of the 15 people who should have been in, from my department this morning, 8 have called in to say that they can't make it cos of the snow.
I'm straight off up to Grouse after work tonight!
Jan 29th 2008, 4:41 am
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Re: Snow in Vancouver!
OK, that'll teach me to gloat. The snow is now well over a foot deep and still falling. But I did get out there and shovel, and now my back is killing me. This is the first winter I haven't had to work, so it was lovely to just go back inside for a cuppa tea. I wouldn't have been able to get to work anyway, because the West Coast Express isn't running all the way to Vancouver. Most of the people on my street didn't even try to go to work. We really are a bunch of wimps out here aren't we? 
I wouldn't have been able to get to work anyway, because the West Coast Express isn't running all the way to Vancouver. Most of the people on my street didn't even try to go to work. We really are a bunch of wimps out here aren't we?
Jan 29th 2008, 5:06 am
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Re: Snow in Vancouver!
OK, that'll teach me to gloat. The snow is now well over a foot deep and still falling. But I did get out there and shovel, and now my back is killing me. This is the first winter I haven't had to work, so it was lovely to just go back inside for a cuppa tea. I wouldn't have been able to get to work anyway, because the West Coast Express isn't running all the way to Vancouver. Most of the people on my street didn't even try to go to work. We really are a bunch of wimps out here aren't we?
I wouldn't have been able to get to work anyway, because the West Coast Express isn't running all the way to Vancouver. Most of the people on my street didn't even try to go to work. We really are a bunch of wimps out here aren't we?
