January 06, 2005
Snow White Blanket
It was nice to wake up to fresh snow this morning - it meant that it must be warmer outside. Everyday since the beginning of the year it has been -5 when I get in the car to go to work, but this morning it was zero... a nice, balmy change. We're not used to sub-zero here!!! I know the rest of Canada is calling us WestCoasters wussies right now, but sorry... it's true.
So we were only supposed to get a skiff, but it ended up snowing straight from about 4Am 'till about 1PM - all told, there was about 6 to 8 cm of snowfall.
I took my camera to work today, in anticipation of seeing some nasty accidents out of my window today, and while there WERE a couple of fender benders, there was no carnage worthy of a snapshot. Once it was light enough, I took this pic - this is right from my office chair, looking out my window at the intersection 'o' death:
And here's what it looks like behind me - looking north at the TransCanada highway - which was at a dead stop (westbound) for over an hour... musta been some great carnage just out of view!
At 10AM, me n' my peers trekked across the parking lot to the coffee shop (I got peppermint tea). A couple hours later we decided to take a "snow day afternoon" so we bundled up and portaged across the road and up the campus trail to the bar:
It's almost 6:00PM now, and it hasn't snowed much in the last four hours, but they're saying on the radio there will be another six to ten cm tomorrow - but the clincher is, it's supposed to be -8 overnight, so the roads are going to be FROZEN SOLID... as much as I love living at the top of a mountain, I am NOT looking forward to driving to work tomorrow!!!
Posted by Calvin at January 6, 2005 05:33 PMi saw lots of snow in my 8 years in vancouver...
it was kinda neet today when i woke up and checked my weather and noticed that we were sunny and vancouver had snowflakes...then i saw your forcast...we're getting another 15 cm tonight topped with freezing rain...talk about icing on the cake....we've been in a deep freeze here with a day time high about -10...kinda like the ice cream factory only not as cold...
Yikes - we haven't had a day yet where the high is below 3... that would suck to have a high of -10.
Bummer...
like i said before i notice vancouver was getting worse weather than PEI...although i consider it better...but my point is up till today we've been doing better than you guys... i think this is fascinating....
on another note i updated my blog today and posted pics again..this time i tell the story of our trip to mount washington..check it out
Posted by: vetiver at January 11, 2005 08:20 PMMan - hat was a quite a whiteout, eh? Hmmm... good idea - zero visibility, lets see how fast we can go down this steep hill without actually being able to see or hear anything!
It was strange reading your blog from the top down - it was the end of the story first, then the middle, then the beginning...