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Freezing rain / suspected ice storm in the Fraser Valley. Either way it's decimated Hydro supplies in the Langley/Abbotsford/Mission area. Have been on generator now for 5 hours and I suspect it might take until tomorrow to reconnect. Only -1C but trouble nonetheless.
Currently 57000 customers without power.

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Mother in law sent photos of her place in Squamish, crazy snowfall.

Only rain in Vancouver but a lot of it. Currently plus 2.

I miss snow...lol..

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Originally Posted by dave_j (Post 12407261)

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Toronto GTA coldest ever this week. Got down to -25 in the wind chill even ouch.

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Currently -28 in Winnipeg, feeling like -40 in windchill :/ I haven't left the house in a while, partner went to the store today (google maps measuring says 460m front door to front door). Got the first 20m, came back, drove it.

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We're 'real feel' minus 35 again. I don't see many 'revelers' turning out for the fireworks tommorow. I see they've cancelled them in Ottawa.

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12407490)

We're 'real feel' minus 35 again. I don't see many 'revelers' turning out for the fireworks tommorow. I see they've cancelled them in Ottawa.

All sorts of adjustments in many places according to CBC this morning.

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This must be what our cousin warned us about when we first decided to move back in 2006, he mentioned really cold winters. Since then we not really had such a harsh winter, until NOW !!

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-35 here, but not much wind. Each winter in Saskatchewan and Manitoba we can expect a cold snap of -30 to -40 temps that lasts a week or 2, and some years there are more than one. Sometimes Alberta gets it too. Like this, they're running low on natural gas up in the Mackenzie:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3938803/c...thern-alberta/

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Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12407490)

We're 'real feel' minus 35 again. I don't see many 'revelers' turning out for the fireworks tommorow. I see they've cancelled them in Ottawa.

Tomorrow evening we're invited to view the midnight fireworks and son et luminaire at the Millennium Bridge / Tyne Bridge from some friends' yacht moored at City Port, about 200m downstream. '

It'll be hell. The temperature at midnight is forecast to plummet to +5.

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Ha ha +5

We just got back from Vegas and at +10 I was exercising outside in a Tee shirt :@)

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Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 12407585)

Ha ha +5

We just got back from Vegas and at +10 I was exercising outside in a Tee shirt

Ah, you just got back to wherever it is you live, Ajax or Whitby or somewhere?

My condolences.

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Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 12407267)

Toronto GTA coldest ever this week. Got down to -25 in the wind chill even ouch.

Toasty, we had -32 without windchill. Almost getting used to the cold as today's -15 seemed quite warm.

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Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5 (Post 12407249)

Yep. I can't work the interweb well enough to tell if you are being sarcastic because you've had yards more snow than the city but I can tell you that driving in TO in the snow is almost like being back in the UK. Everyone goes beserk, and there isn't a grit lorry in sight. Thank god I'm back in the country, and all roads will be clear by the time I get up in the morning, and no idiots will have parked on the side of the road, let alone on some approximation of somewhere vaguely adjacent to the side of the road. I won't even mention the u-turns, beeping and general complete and utter arsedness.

Sarcastic of course. Snow clearing always seems to be worse in the cities. Peterborough is usually a slushy mess.

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Originally Posted by MarkG (Post 12407253)

There's a reason I now have a battery heater as well as a block heater. Made starting easy today at 30 below zero.

What did surprise me today is how much the engine rpms drop (and fuel economy improves) when I turn the car heater off while driving. Obviously it's taking heat out of the engine, but I never realized the impact was so severe.

Unfortunately, with the heater off, the windshield ices up on the inside!

Congratulations I think this is the first block heater mention this winter.

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Some crazy arses go buying bikes when it's minus 29 before the wind chill. Photo taken before being loaded up and brought home.

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Mother in law's back yard in Squamish as of Sat morning.