Winter 2017-18
Dec 30th 2017, 2:48 am
#211
Listen to the Music
Joined: Mar 2013
Location: Fraser Valley BC
Posts: 4,713
Re: Winter 2017-18
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.
Currently 57000 customers without power.
Dec 30th 2017, 3:14 am
#212
Account Closed
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 0
Re: Winter 2017-18
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..
Only rain in Vancouver but a lot of it. Currently plus 2.
I miss snow...lol..
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.
Currently 57000 customers without power.
Dec 30th 2017, 3:29 am
#213
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Ajax, Ontario
Posts: 7,263
Re: Winter 2017-18
Toronto GTA coldest ever this week. Got down to -25 in the wind chill even ouch.
Dec 30th 2017, 4:10 am
#214
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Joined: Feb 2014
Location: Done with condescending old hags
Posts: 1,194
Re: Winter 2017-18
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.
Dec 30th 2017, 12:52 pm
#215
BE user by choice
Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
Re: Winter 2017-18
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.
Dec 30th 2017, 1:23 pm
#216
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Dec 30th 2017, 1:34 pm
#217
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Ajax, Ontario
Posts: 7,263
Re: Winter 2017-18
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 !!
Dec 30th 2017, 2:55 pm
#218
Stand-up Philosopher
Joined: Apr 2009
Location: Regina Saskatchewan
Posts: 16,344
Re: Winter 2017-18
-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/
https://globalnews.ca/news/3938803/c...thern-alberta/
Last edited by caretaker; Dec 30th 2017 at 3:05 pm.
Dec 30th 2017, 4:12 pm
#219
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Europe (to be specified).
Posts: 30,259
Re: Winter 2017-18
It'll be hell. The temperature at midnight is forecast to plummet to +5.
Dec 30th 2017, 4:47 pm
#220
Nuther day in paradise.ca
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Location: Ajax, Ontario
Posts: 7,263
Re: Winter 2017-18
Ha ha +5
We just got back from Vegas and at +10 I was exercising outside in a Tee shirt :@)
We just got back from Vegas and at +10 I was exercising outside in a Tee shirt :@)
Dec 30th 2017, 8:45 pm
#221
Born again atheist
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Dec 31st 2017, 1:11 am
#223
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,982
Re: Winter 2017-18
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.
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!
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!
Dec 31st 2017, 2:03 am
#224
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Posts: 10,612
Re: Winter 2017-18
Some crazy arses go buying bikes when it's minus 29 before the wind chill. Photo taken before being loaded up and brought home.
Dec 31st 2017, 3:46 am
#225
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Re: Winter 2017-18
Mother in law's back yard in Squamish as of Sat morning.