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- The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)

- - Winter 2016-17 (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/winter-2016-17-a-888298/)

Novocastrian

Dec 15th 2016 4:39 am

Re: Winter 2016-17

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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 12129830)

I feel for you. We've already had over 70cm of the crap and the numbers I'm looking at today are not pretty. Minus lots and FFS! windchill.

I have been forced to haul my domestic swill in from the garage. I know what happens to it below -15.

The darlings at Sears have just informed me that my snowblower (due for delivery yesterday) has arrived at the distribution warehouse.

Which is in Calgary..........

I had to scrape a bit of frost off my windscreen a week or so ago.

The horror!!!

Atlantic Xpat

Dec 15th 2016 4:55 am

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Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12129854)

:thumbup:

Thank you for that. I think. :ohmy:

Souvy

Dec 15th 2016 4:59 am

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Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12129861)

70cms!! WTF
It snowed 30cms here back in Jan 2015 - the largest snow event in 80 years!!

I can deal with the cold, but I cannot deal with more than 10cm of snow in a 24hr period.

Not 70cm in one go!

I meant the total so far (although we've had 10+ four times already this year).

I think the 50cm we had in one dump last February was the local record.

I still remember the winter of 2007/8. We had 444cm and it didn't melt.

Stinkypup

Dec 15th 2016 5:08 am

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 12129878)

Thank you for that. I think. :ohmy:

Your welcome! You still looked a bit chilly- I was looking for some fluffy mittens but couldnt find the right coloured ones to match your outfit - I don't want you getting frostbite

Oink	Dec 15th 2016 5:42 am

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12129652)

It's now that I realize that I can't drive worth a damn! The only thing that makes me feel better is that the majority of Canadians drive no better than me and they were brought up in this rubbish weather! I think the term 'very chilly' covers us down East for the next few days...

All those people who go on about how great the sunshine is in minus degree weather are talking bollox. It's sunny and very cold here and its horrible. Bring back the grey and damp 10c.

dbd33

Dec 15th 2016 5:53 am

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Today the weather is bad enough that the snowploughs have been cancelled. The OPP have closed all the roads in the county but that's really just a liability thing; people, us included, still have to get where they're going.

Ebonhawke

Dec 15th 2016 6:07 am

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This thread may scare off some of the people considering emigration to Canada as they may have thought some of the cold weather stereotypes were simply exaggeration! :lol:

Souvy

Dec 15th 2016 6:11 am

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 12129905)

All those people who go on about how great the sunshine is in minus degree weather are talking bollox. It's sunny and very cold here and its horrible. Bring back the grey and damp 10c.

But is it a dry damp? That makes all the difference.

scrubbedexpat091

Dec 15th 2016 7:09 am

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Sunny and cool. Last weekend's snow is still here. I think schools only closed Monday but 30cm of snow Sunday created a mess.

Looks like the cold snap ends Sunday, rain and warmer temps Monday.

I'll miss the snow. Lol

Partially discharged

Dec 15th 2016 8:29 am

Re: Winter 2016-17

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12129917)

https://twitter.com/StormhunterTWN

Any chance you are in those photos going through the closed road sign:lol::lol:

dbd33

Dec 15th 2016 8:41 am

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Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12130058)

https://twitter.com/StormhunterTWN

Any chance you are in those photos going through the closed road sign:lol::lol:

No but I used to live just north of Shelburne, off the 124. CR124 has permanent "Road Closed" signs that the cops turn on remotely when the weather's bad. If you live between the signs you don't know that they're on so I'd routinely go through them the wrong way and then have no choice but to go back through them on the flashing light side.

That is the same storm as here though and the same wave of road closures. It was like February out there today, very little forward visibility and, every now and then, the need to steer around a stuck griege or white SUV. In these circumstances those daytime running lights are really dangerous, I wish they'd ban them.

dbd33

Dec 15th 2016 8:45 am

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Obligatory pictures of car in snow drift. I drove up the driveway as far as it would go then went back and tugged it the rest of the way with the tractor. The February Parking Procedure.

Ebonhawke

Dec 15th 2016 8:59 am

Re: Winter 2016-17

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12130075)

Obligatory pictures of car in snow drift. I drove up the driveway as far as it would go then went back and tugged it the rest of the way with the tractor. The February Parking Procedure.

Assuming that's a rear-wheel drive Mustang, that would be one reason why you get stuck in the snow :)

Danny B

Dec 15th 2016 9:00 am

Re: Winter 2016-17

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12130075)

Obligatory pictures of car in snow drift. I drove up the driveway as far as it would go then went back and tugged it the rest of the way with the tractor. The February Parking Procedure.

Is your fence working?

R I C H

Dec 15th 2016 9:11 am

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Originally Posted by Ebonhawke (Post 12130090)

Assuming that's a rear-wheel drive Mustang, that would be one reason why you get stuck in the snow :)

Owning a rear-drive car it's perfectly possible to get around during the winter. Three years living at a ski resort taught me that.

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