It can stop snowing now.....

Depends where you are in Canada. This amount of snow is usual in the east, but not the west. If you visit Canada in the winter you will need snowshoes for Quebec and anything east. Warm rubber boots for southern “ slushy” Ontario and sunglasses for Saskatchewan and Akberta to avoid snow blindness. There is rarely this much snow there, but there is usually a thin light layer with a bright blinding sun. The biggest snowfalls don’t hit there until spring. Once you make it to the west coast you will need rain gear.

Just lost a friend to a heart attack after shovelling snow. He cleared away the first snow fall of the year, got in his car and had a heart attack a few miles away. He was in great shape too. Apparently cold weather and hard work create the perfect storm for heart attacks.

I grew up where we would get the mass storms like that. Wet weather would come over the great lakes and just dump. Sorry to hear that Rage, “Heart attack snow” is spot on. Don’t miss the snow that much, but I do miss it. We get snow here, but anything more than a bit shuts everything down. Lots of big hills, and not enough snow to make buying a bunch of plows worthwhile (we can go several winters with no snow at all) makes for treacherous driving.

Yeah here where I am it’s not much the snow but the Arctic winds hanging around here now. Let’s see… –7 Celsius now!

How old was he? Even though I'm sixty, I tried hard to keep in shape, but this years snow storms have worn me out a little. The pics in my OP is about 30% of what I did as I had to clear the roof on my car port as well as the back of my house. I think it's time I build an extension in the front and back of my house so I don't have to go through this next winter.

Makes ya wish for a flamethrower, don’t it?

Flame throwers would be huge up here...... I think you're on to something

I want to respond to this so badly but every response I type seems to get political so I’d better not.

Made it a routine, snow shoveling. Not to despair, I start out so slowly just clearing a shovel’s width and not too deep. I pickup steam and widen the trench another 18 inches or so. When at at about 4 1/2 feet wide, I double down the next 12 to 16 inches deep. So if I tire, I can call it quits and contend with a half done job.
Might take a break, then attack the parking space. The treachery is flinging each scoop above the mound, which some years seem to grow higher than sublimation / runoff.
A few years ago I rented the services of a youngster to take care of the nasty stuff. Unfortunately, as we get about the same total snowfall each year and if not evenly spaced storms, we’re hit with successive downfalls. The chap abandoned after some 6 weeks.

BTW live in Quebec, ~ 3 meters of snow, plus the many rainy days. Driving is sometimes a perilous affair. Not uncommon to see mountains along the commercial avenues till they clear all the cars and take out the heavy equipment - pulling all-nighters and morning come everything is pristinely clean with trees adoring an angelic coat of virgin snow.

Then the cold sets in, commonly in the –10 to –20º C.

But differing from tropical heat, you gear up with the winter parkas and “tuques”. Warm clothes in layers is the secret. As the day progresses and my body adjusts, I peel the sweater, T shirt, or the coat liner.

Winter is harsh, but it keeps us fit. If someone relies on some local friend for their winter blues, they usually move south of Montreal, or Ontario, or another western province.

And we console ourselves those East are getting it worst.

@klrman and Sidney Stratton, it’s unfortunately going to get worse.

Climate change will make it so that wild temperature swings will get more frequent, and the temperature deltas will grow.

Even today, even trying to remove all the snow, the snow still melted, and froze into a 25mm thick ice sheet.

Two trains of thought. Climate change is real and we messed up the planet or..... fudge stats to make it appear as if it is real so that we can all be taxed to no end. For me the truth is somewhere in the middle, and of course we should stop polluting our planet. Be prepared for this thread to be banned at any time due to free thinking!

Well here in the West Coast, we use to the rain mainly so when just a few snow flakes start falling, omg all hell breaks loose for people living here. Like go get winter tires now or huge lineups for salt. Ahh a little too late now isn’t it lol

I have to travel to see anything resembling snow anymore. To some it’s a curse. To me it’s a wish. Man I love snow. Great pics.

You want some snow! Ok trade ya the sun for some snow? :slight_smile:

Sorry, didn’t have that today either. Dang, I just lose.

Normally in Germany we get plenty of snow. But this year only a couple of times for a few hours and a couple of centimeters on the ground. Very strange.

I remember during one bad snow storm I lost my cell by the lawn area. Two weeks after the snow had melted I found where I had dropped it. It still worked! It was a Motorola c300. Mighty fine phone too. :slight_smile:

I Drive on it .

Not willing to die to impress my neighbors who break out the snow blower once or twice a year just to show off and get away from their wives for at least a few hours .

Greta honey it's time for bed ...

I HATE you mommy !!! ARUGH ..Why ??? Why Do I have to shovel the snow ??..

PEOPLE ARE DYING !! You've stolen my dreams and ..my childhood ...HOW DARE YOU !

This is all wrong ..I shouldn't be shoveling snow. You come to us young people to shovel your walks .And yet I am one of the lucky ones since daddy bought a snowblower .But people like kirman are suffering and dying and all you can talk about is flashlights and batteries ...How dare you .

^^ haha! Speaking of Greta, one thing I can tell you around here is that it's all the older generation cleaning their sidewalks. It's a sad state of affairs really. Most of the younger ones seem to be invisible when it comes to a little bit of work.

Hmmmmm. Snow.

I come from North East of England. (a long time ago).

We often used to climb out the upstairs windows.
and slide down the snow to street level when kids.

46/7 years ago I came to Australia,
Always said the first time I see a frost. I’m off up North.

NEVER yet seen a frost here. but for the last 40 yrs have been up North. Darwin.
Then QLD.

Jeez. We turn the heaters on when it drops to 22deg now.