A Mammoth Storm
This is getting kind of boring but that's life here in T-Dot right now. We are buried and I mean buried in white stuff. Just a few statistics, the worst March storm that I remember was March 4, 1985 where we had 24.5 cm and I remember it well. It was Steve's first winter in Canada having come here from southern California, and he was awfully close to going back. The Toronto total snow fall record was 207 cm which was in 1939. We are within 10 cm of beating that record at the moment and March and April can and will bring more snow.
Our front stairs this morning...
Pristine walkway, where the heck is that newspaper!
Cars? What cars...they are under there somewhere...
Jim, the neighbourhood hero is out there again plowing out driveways...
This afternoon Jim and his wife Eileen will make a big roaring fire in their fireplace and have invited us all over for a retirement party for our other neighbour Betty. I'm sure we will all bitch about the snow...
posted by Rositta @ Sunday, March 09, 2008
7 Comments:
Today it was 40 degrees here. now all that pristine snow is turning to sludgy mush. Oh April, where art thou?
I'm sure it happened all over the GTA, but unfortunately there's still some people out there that care about themselves, and nobody else, when it comes to good snow removal manners.
On my own street up in Maple, 1 guy used his snow blower to put the majority of his snow on the street, after the plough had come through. This is routine for him.
On the same street, a lady's hired snow removal service, thought it ok to push all of her snow off her driveway, and onto the street, basically along side of my front lawn.
Ontario Highway Traffic Act is fairly clear about it being illegal to put your snow onto the street.
Unfortunately, unless I'm prepared to call the police myself, which won't be happening, this will just go on and on.
If the police would just take a drive around the morning after or the day after a big snow storm, they'd discover lots of revenue generating opportunities.
feeling your pain Rositta. we got freezing rain from that storm. we didnt have to go anywhere sunday so it wasnt so bad...but today, monday, the roads are so slick with the ice layer on them under the little snow we got after the freezing rain. the less im on the road the happier i am.
be safe and have a good week :)
hugs,
lori
Hi anonymous, I'm sorry to hear that in your neck of the woods there are rude people who do this. Doesn't happen in our neighbourhood, fortunately. Our front yards though, are holding mountains of snow. Jim the neighbour does all the sidewalks for 7 houses two of which are corner lots and helps everyone clear the winrows after the plows have gone through. I don't know how we would all manage without him.
Stay safe, Caligirl, I heard about the freezing rain. The U.S got hit pretty badly as well so they also have my symphaty...ciao
What an unbelievable winter! i hope you thaw out and stay thawed out!
Yay, too neighborhood heroes!
The sun is shining but it's still cold, it will take a while to thaw out. Yup, Jim is everyone's hero and every neighbourhood needs one...ciao
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