(Image via Geoff Howe/Canadian Press)
The storm itself is incredible! The wind is blowing at about 85 km/hr and the snow keeps falling. People are all driving with their 4-way flashers on in the hope that people can see them. Some of my drive back from the doctor's was done in complete whiteout at about 10 km/hr. It's insane!(When I got back to the office I found that everyone had gone home. Just my luck. (I stayed at the office working for about 90 minutes waiting for the traffic to lessen - unsuccessfully - then went home myself.)
Here's wishing you a better day than we're having!
2 comments:
You may think it funny, but I do miss those prairie storms. Not that I like to be out in them, when the wind is blowing the snow down horizontally, and the windchill is the equivilent of absolute zero. I like them from the inside: a warm house, a good book, hot tea, and listening to the wind howl outside. Such days seem to me sort of an "island of time", when everything else in the world goes on hold.
The weather here has been unseasonably warm, with a lot of rain. We haven't had to fire up "Big Green" the snowblower once. What little snow we had melted off within hours. We had a storm on Monday, though nothing like what you had, and by the time I went home: rain, heavy rain. It was almost as if I needed a dogsled to get to work, and a boat to get home.
Good heavens! I've read quite a bit about the unusual weather that you east coasters have been getting in recent years. It must take quite some getting used to.
Yes, when I think about it, despite the trouble and inconvenience of a bad blizzard, there is quite a comfort in being able to sit, nice and cozy after having come in from outside, and sip a cup of tea with a cat in one's lap and watch the snow (horizontal snow is a great mental image) out the window, warm and snuggly in your own chair.
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