The double agent (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} double_agent15) wrote,@ 2008-03-09 12:00:00 |
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Snow? What Snow?
While most of the world has been embracing the fact that it is now March (and less than a week until my Birthday *YAY*!) and that generally means that spring is just about here and we are free from this dreaded thing called winter, Over here in Southern Ontario it just seems to mean that it is another month of winter.
Within the past week we have had 2 major snow storms, and the TV has been telling us that for the past 2 months we have been seeing an average of one snowstorm every 3 days dumping 10 cm (4 inches) of snow or more on us unsuspecting public. Right now you can't buy a shovel or salt in this city for love or money, and the municipalities have pretty much run out of salt for the winter that is how bad it has been.
Now in case any of you haven't heard, we were supposed to get hit with the winter's worst storm yet this weekend, just about everything was cancelled in anticipation of the storm, as we left school on Friday they'd cancelled all weekend classes, my friend got called in and told not to come to work on Saturday, and this was all before we had seen any hint of snowfall.
And to make matters worse, the year in which Toronto has seen the most snow was 1939. At that point over the winter they had 207.4 cm of snow. Before the snowfall Toronto was approximately 30 cm away from reaching that record.
So Saturday morning I woke up and it was snowing, no real surprise, but it wasn't that bad, even though there was already about 10 cm on the ground. I go out, get a bit of shopping done and end up over at Manna's house for the evening. We have dinner, watch a movie, played the watch the rails on the fence disappear game and then I go outside to go home. I had left the windshield wipers on the car set to intermittant when I turned the car off, because I always forget to turn them off. It wasn't until I was a good 5 minutes into clearing off the windshield that the wipers even started trying to move that is how much snow had accumulated on top of the windshield. The snow on the ground came up to where the door opened on the car. But, I manage to get home safely, one of the streets I take home had been plowed and it was actually really fast to get home weather considering. Then, I go to pull into the driveway and get stuck. I had to get Aaron and Dave to shovel me into the driveway. Which as I sat in the car I realized that Dave was taking a couple of days off work because he'd screwed up his back and needed to go see a chiropractor. Ooops.
So when I woke up this morning I decided that I needed to document exactly how ridiculous the snow situation here is because, no one outside of this area is ever going to believe just how much snow really fell. Apparently as of 8:30 last night we were 12 cm away from tying the record, and at this point it's just got to be smashed...
My house, notice that the snow is as tall as the car?
Our front walkway
More of my house
The view looking down my street
Aaron who is taller than me in front of a snow bank, which is clearly, taller than him
Me in front of a different snow bank
The house across the street. Notice that the snow is at least 2/3 of the way up the basketbal pole
Then We decided that it would be a good idea to take Jake out for a walk, because as much as he and Jewel play in the backyard, he doesn't get a lot of chances to go out for a walk being that it is so damn cold and slippery out there right now, and well, we wanted to see what the rest of the block looked like.
Jake in front of a snowbank, notice just how much taller than him it is
Cars hidden by the snow
Ya, overall, it is absolutely insane out there...
But clearly, I'm sitting inside working diligently on my homework....
clearly....
While most of the world has been embracing the fact that it is now March (and less than a week until my Birthday *YAY*!) and that generally means that spring is just about here and we are free from this dreaded thing called winter, Over here in Southern Ontario it just seems to mean that it is another month of winter.
Within the past week we have had 2 major snow storms, and the TV has been telling us that for the past 2 months we have been seeing an average of one snowstorm every 3 days dumping 10 cm (4 inches) of snow or more on us unsuspecting public. Right now you can't buy a shovel or salt in this city for love or money, and the municipalities have pretty much run out of salt for the winter that is how bad it has been.
Now in case any of you haven't heard, we were supposed to get hit with the winter's worst storm yet this weekend, just about everything was cancelled in anticipation of the storm, as we left school on Friday they'd cancelled all weekend classes, my friend got called in and told not to come to work on Saturday, and this was all before we had seen any hint of snowfall.
And to make matters worse, the year in which Toronto has seen the most snow was 1939. At that point over the winter they had 207.4 cm of snow. Before the snowfall Toronto was approximately 30 cm away from reaching that record.
So Saturday morning I woke up and it was snowing, no real surprise, but it wasn't that bad, even though there was already about 10 cm on the ground. I go out, get a bit of shopping done and end up over at Manna's house for the evening. We have dinner, watch a movie, played the watch the rails on the fence disappear game and then I go outside to go home. I had left the windshield wipers on the car set to intermittant when I turned the car off, because I always forget to turn them off. It wasn't until I was a good 5 minutes into clearing off the windshield that the wipers even started trying to move that is how much snow had accumulated on top of the windshield. The snow on the ground came up to where the door opened on the car. But, I manage to get home safely, one of the streets I take home had been plowed and it was actually really fast to get home weather considering. Then, I go to pull into the driveway and get stuck. I had to get Aaron and Dave to shovel me into the driveway. Which as I sat in the car I realized that Dave was taking a couple of days off work because he'd screwed up his back and needed to go see a chiropractor. Ooops.
So when I woke up this morning I decided that I needed to document exactly how ridiculous the snow situation here is because, no one outside of this area is ever going to believe just how much snow really fell. Apparently as of 8:30 last night we were 12 cm away from tying the record, and at this point it's just got to be smashed...
My house, notice that the snow is as tall as the car?
Our front walkway
More of my house
The view looking down my street
Aaron who is taller than me in front of a snow bank, which is clearly, taller than him
Me in front of a different snow bank
The house across the street. Notice that the snow is at least 2/3 of the way up the basketbal pole
Then We decided that it would be a good idea to take Jake out for a walk, because as much as he and Jewel play in the backyard, he doesn't get a lot of chances to go out for a walk being that it is so damn cold and slippery out there right now, and well, we wanted to see what the rest of the block looked like.
Jake in front of a snowbank, notice just how much taller than him it is
Cars hidden by the snow
Ya, overall, it is absolutely insane out there...
But clearly, I'm sitting inside working diligently on my homework....
clearly....
