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Taking pictures while driving in the snow is dumb. I'm a trained Canadian which makes it slightly less dumb, even still, it's not the smartest thing to do. Note the wheelchair transport bus in the first picture, there's a message in that somewhere...

Spin Echo wrote:

Enigma wrote:

Spin Echo wrote:You see that bump in the snow in right about the middle of the page? That's a roof.

I doubt you are Canadian. *points to the exit* OUT!

I'm sorry that your light Canadian dustings can't stand up to a real winter.

Our winters are quite severe for a civilized country.

Darth Wong wrote:I love cold winters. Everyone should live in a place that has four actual seasons, not just slightly warmer or colder versions of one. Besides, that's one of the reasons we have a lot fewer bugs, and I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

I saw one study on California crime that found that violent crime rates go up significantly when it’s really hot and humid, over 94 degrees F IIRC. However the same study also found that when it’s only in the high 80s F the rates go down, perhaps because its not hot enough to piss off every last person in the state, and yet it is hot enough to make day to day criminals want to stay in the air conditioning.

Sea Skimmer wrote:I saw one study on California crime that found that violent crime rates go up significantly when it’s really hot and humid, over 94 degrees F IIRC. However the same study also found that when it’s only in the high 80s F the rates go down, perhaps because its not hot enough to piss off every last person in the state, and yet it is hot enough to make day to day criminals want to stay in the air conditioning.

The bulk of California is retarded hot. That's the only way to describe it: it's so hot, that it cooks your brain a little. I spent a summer out in Davis eight years ago, and the average day was in the mid nineties. And it never rains in the summer. It's never even cloudy. Just scorching hot and sunny all summer long. Actually, I was out there during their heatwave in late July, 2006. It was 110-115 during the day. One day it was 100 out...at 10 PM.

That's only in the valley, though. It's nice out on the coast, and up in the mountains, it doesn't get too bad.

Coming home through St. John's towards the end of last month. The Canadian hospitality we received was nothing short of awesome.

Line worker at the airport: "Welcome to Canada eh, beer's in the fridge."

Desk worker at the hotel: "Welcome to Canada eh, here are your keys, the beer in your fridge is complimentary."



UPDATE: HOLY DOGSHIT, IT JUST STARTED SNOWING HERE! IN TEXAS!!!!

I live in winnipeg, a city that gives mostly Siberia a run for it's money in winter severity and it is currently -23 degrees out, and it has been bouncing back and forth between brown slush and puddles.

Zor

Darth Wong wrote:Our winters are quite severe for a civilized country.

...I'm not actually unemployed in Greenland.

Scandinavia has both tea and cricket, so it can't be that uncivilised here.

Spin Echo wrote:Scandinavia has both tea and cricket, so it can't be that uncivilised here.

Yeah, but as I recall they also have some kind of half rotten fermented fish thing which is supposed to be a great delicacy or something.

Darth Wong wrote:I love cold winters. Everyone should live in a place that has four actual seasons, not just slightly warmer or colder versions of one. Besides, that's one of the reasons we have a lot fewer bugs, and I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

Is it really though? I live near LA in California and there's very few bugs here. For a place to snow it'd typically have to be a place with some degree of humidity, and once the summer comes around the bugs come back in full force. I'm under the impression that there are less bugs in drier places.

(yes it snows in california too, but you have to really go up in altitude to find any)

Shinova wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:I love cold winters. Everyone should live in a place that has four actual seasons, not just slightly warmer or colder versions of one. Besides, that's one of the reasons we have a lot fewer bugs, and I'm starting to wonder if there's something to the suspicion that the hotter it gets, the stupider people become.

Is it really though? I live near LA in California and there's very few bugs here. For a place to snow it'd typically have to be a place with some degree of humidity, and once the summer comes around the bugs come back in full force. I'm under the impression that there are less bugs in drier places.

(yes it snows in california too, but you have to really go up in altitude to find any)

California has few bugs but for a different reason: it's too dry to support the kind of wetlands or damp forested areas that promote bug reproduction. That's why you have those regularly scheduled wildfires.

Yup, more snow on the way, it's already coming down nicely...

TO made out pretty good this year. Certainly better than Ottawa and the Valley with the frequent freezing rain.

Well Ottawa is on it's way to break it's 1970-71 record of 444 centimeters. It is currently 357.1 centimeters and looks to reach 382 by tomorrow.

Toronto was at around 170cm before the snow started coming down today, so while we may not break our record of 207cm this weekend another major storm or two would be enough to do the job.

Enigma wrote:Well Ottawa is on it's way to break it's 1970-71 record of 444 centimeters. It is currently 357.1 centimeters and looks to reach 382 by tomorrow.

True but it wouldn't present a problem (at least here) if they hadn't based the snow budget on last years fall instead of on the average or better yet, the worst case. If you don't spend it you can roll it over for next year.

The freezing rain you can't do much with. Except dump a shitload of salt and sand on the road.

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Enigma wrote:Well Ottawa is on it's way to break it's 1970-71 record of 444 centimeters. It is currently 357.1 centimeters and looks to reach 382 by tomorrow.

True but it wouldn't present a problem (at least here) if they hadn't based the snow budget on last years fall instead of on the average or better yet, the worst case. If you don't spend it you can roll it over for next year.

The freezing rain you can't do much with. Except dump a shitload of salt and sand on the road.

True. Ottawa so far is about 6 million over budget and now the weather network has updated the expected amount of snowfall to 30-40cm I can see the over budget to be around $10 million.

This is starting to get a bit out of hand, I'm just under 6' tall with my boots on and the damn snowpile is now around my height.






Nice snow layering by the fence from the wind

Out of hand, aerius? That is so fucking funny.

View of the frontyard from inside the house.

That the front yard after last night's snowfall.

The street in front of our house.

Part of the backyard (off camera, the rest of the backyard is under 6 feet of snow.

Yes, it's true, here in Canada, we live in snow igloos.

Just be sure to dig a cold well.

DEATH wrote:

Isolder74 wrote:At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

Celsius. Can any Manitobans confirm what temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba small children were still forced out into the playground to "play"?

I realize that I'm a little late in confirming this for you, but better late than never.

I think -40 (including windchill) was the cutoff point. Below that, kids were still kicked out of the building for recess, and the school patrols (like a crossing guard, but it was on quiet corners, and it was kids doing the duty) were still stuck on their corners for 10 or 15 minutes at a time every time school let out.

Maybe 'Peggers are just born tougher .

[edit] ...or more stupid.

Enigma wrote:Out of hand, aerius? That is so fucking funny.

Sorry, but you don't get to complain about the difficulty of clearing snow if you're using a machine to do it. Aerius was holding a real shovel, not standing next to a gas-powered snowblower.

muse wrote:Yes, it's true, here in Canada, we live in snow igloos.

Next thing we know, you'll be brag- err, saying that in Canada you have sex in snow igloos.

How long does the snow generally last in Ontario, anyway? After last weekend's snowstorm, ours in Indiana melted in the middle of last week and now we've got shitty rainy weather with temperatures in the 40s and 50s (4-12 C for you civilized types).

Surlethe wrote:

How long does the snow generally last in Ontario, anyway? After last weekend's snowstorm, ours in Indiana melted in the middle of last week and now we've got shitty rainy weather with temperatures in the 40s and 50s (4-12 C for you civilized types).

Depending on the year and your location, there may still be snow in April. In fact the day my daughter was born it was still snowing and IIRC correctly it was still around on the 15th of April.

I thought this was kind of funny. From the same snowfall back on the first weekend of March:




David pulling off an icicle from the back window


David using the icicle as a makeshift toy gun


It's actually a surprisingly good looking toy gun once the boys have finished cracking bits off it. I should post this picture whenever I run into the kind of person who says they don't let their kids play with toy guns. They will find a way to do it anyway, folks. Mind you, my kids have plenty of toy guns anyway.