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| Posted by: MacEoghainn 26-Jan-2009, 06:27 PM |
| I'm seeing winter storm warnings for the Midwest and New England. Have you folks had enough snow yet? We expect the low 80s by midweek here in Sunny Southwest Florida! |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 26-Jan-2009, 07:23 PM |
| MacEoghainn, No sir...if it were up to me it would be winter all year round and I wouldn't mind one bit...I love snow..I could eat snow...sleep in the snow...play in the snow...shall I continue to bore you...no I think you get it well enough...  I know some will think me nuts but hey! we can't agree on everything I guess!!! LOA  Vive le vent  vive le vent vive le vent d'hiver boule de neige et jour de l'An et bonne année grand-mère!! |
| Posted by: RebeccaAnn 26-Jan-2009, 08:07 PM |
| I welcome the snow. I wish it would come. With snow we would not be so cold or have so many main breaks and so much ice. This 15 or below and high winds is too much. |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 26-Jan-2009, 08:57 PM |
SNOW! SNOW! BEAUTIFUL SNOW! CLEAN SNOW! No mud! No heat! GOD I hate summer! It could be Fall and winter ALL year 'round! Anything over 60 degrees is TOO hot and we should roll up and go home! Summer's heat is the death of those who work out side and is to be avoided at ALL costs! NO, I haven't had enough winter yet, ask me in 5-7 years. |
| Posted by: Robert Phoenix 26-Jan-2009, 09:13 PM |
| I really hate to snow on your parade folks but if you really want some snow, Come Get Some!!!!! I had it, I have shoveled enough, slipped enough and have pushed and rocked enough cars out of the snowbanks for this year. I'm tired of below zero weather and wind chills in the minus double digits. Want snow? Come on up and Welcome to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan! Hopefully the roads are clear and you can get through. Snowfall (in inches, to 7 a.m.) Monday: none Season: 123.0 January: 44.3 On ground: 22.0 But hey guess what we get sun and clear skies tomorrow and a whole 21 degrees. It's suppose to snow for the next two weeks after that. Every day.  |
| Posted by: flora 26-Jan-2009, 09:56 PM |
| With all the snow, how are the ski resorts doing? With the economy as is, do people still support the resorts? Or is the weather not right for skiing? Flora |
| Posted by: Harlot 26-Jan-2009, 11:10 PM | ||
I agree with you so much and we don't even get that much at the other end of the state, I don't think I could live way up there and not sure how you do it. I want to go back to Jamaica!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Camac 27-Jan-2009, 07:32 AM |
| Harlot; To put it as politely as I can "I Hate, Despise, Detest, Abhor, and Dislike", that insidious white stuff that falls from the sky as a blight upon the Earth. The temperature could fall to -700C and I wouldn't mind at all it is that wet, cold, clinging, white, fluffy, stuff, that I can do with out. Camac. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 28-Jan-2009, 04:36 AM |
| Ah yes another typical morning in the great white north. Woke up this morning to find another gift from the heavens..........2 more inches of snow. I couldn't agree more with Camac on this subject. If it never snowed again it would suit me fine. At least in two weeks time my wife and I will be basking in 80 degree weather and sitting on a beach in the Dominincan. |
| Posted by: Camac 28-Jan-2009, 07:00 AM |
| piobmhorpiper; Thanks for the congrats. Can't believe a year has gone by. They say time flies when your having fun and I have had alot of fun this past year. BTW Have got room in a suitcase for a stowaway. Camac. PS; It's snowing again. When finished another 15-20cm. Will it never end? |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 28-Jan-2009, 07:13 AM |
| Camac I fear my carryon is a wee bit on the small size for you to fit into and me thinks the airline frowns on passengers travelling in steerage. I will not miss anything about winter while I am away. The only white stuff I will see wil be sand. |
| Posted by: Harlot 28-Jan-2009, 08:35 AM |
| I got this morning open the blinds and the Jeep was covered with snow again,I just hate surprises like that. Please "Make it stop" |
| Posted by: togo 28-Jan-2009, 09:19 AM |
| Yeah I've had it with the snow. I love it in December for the holidays but after that it can stop. Winter seems to last longer now too. When I was a kid I thought I remembered having a spring jacket on in during March and seeing no more snow and warming temperatures. Now it seems we don't get the great weather til May! Ok gotta to go shovel now and move some of the snow that's coming down at this very moment before it changes over to sleet like they say it will by the afternoon. |
| Posted by: Faerydreamer 28-Jan-2009, 10:03 AM |
| I have had more than enough snow. I am once again trapped in my home because I cannot walk safely in the ice due to my stroke. I really hate this. Spring where are you? |
| Posted by: Camac 28-Jan-2009, 10:14 AM |
| It finally dawned on me why it is snowing so much. It's the Inuit, they have been feeding blubber to the weather Gods to make it snow in the south. I think they are trying to get back at us for the Global Warming. Camac. |
| Posted by: Faerydreamer 28-Jan-2009, 10:19 AM |
| Okay, then lets find them and take away the blubber supply so that they cannot feed the weather Gods anymore! I am tired of this weather. It is too cold and I want to start walking my dogs. They would love it if they could go for walks everyday. |
| Posted by: Camac 28-Jan-2009, 10:26 AM |
| Faerydreamer; I agree but there is a slight problem, there is only about 100,000 of them and that works out to somelike one ever 10,000 square kilometres and that only counting the one in Nunavut and the North West Territory not the ones in Labrador. Best time to find then is in the summer when you don't need to find them. Camac. |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 28-Jan-2009, 10:30 AM | ||
Or it could be the beginning of the next Ice Age that a number of Climatologists believe is now beginning (The Russians are fairly sure it's coming and I have read that some of their recent actions concerning Natural Gas is at least in part driven by this belief). |
| Posted by: sisterknight 28-Jan-2009, 01:01 PM |
friggin' stuff is still a four letter word to me!!!  we may be the true north strong and free but this particular gal is frozen solid and free from heat at the moment!!!! amybe by june there'll be none left.......**sigh** |
| Posted by: RebeccaAnn 28-Jan-2009, 02:39 PM |
| Haven't you heard the news? It's global warming. That is why in the time of dinosaurs this northland was a great tropics and in the time of first man the land was filled with glaciers that created the Great Lakes. Today is a beautiful day. The new snow makes the land sparkle with diamonds. It's 27 and no high winds. I would love a day like today if we had a snowman making snow insted of this powder. I can't go out long but I could go out and make a snow family with my girls. RebeccaAnn |
| Posted by: Camac 28-Jan-2009, 02:55 PM |
| All I have to say is that when I look outside I am reminded of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" with Denis Quaid.. Camacc |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 28-Jan-2009, 03:08 PM | ||||
I have been saying for a long time and every time I say it people look at me like I'm some kind of freak from Mars!!!!  We are heading into the next Ice Age...believe it or not. LOA  |
| Posted by: Camac 28-Jan-2009, 03:46 PM |
| I don't care if an ice age is coming I won't be around when it gets here. I JUST WANT IT TO STOP FREAKIN SNOWING. Camac. |
| Posted by: Harlot 28-Jan-2009, 07:54 PM |
| Ice Age yuck!!! Makes think of the movie that I watch with my grandkids. And Robert Phoenix my daughter asked to ask you if the snowplows have been out much this year? They own land up there but I can't see her wanting to go up there now. |
| Posted by: Camac 29-Jan-2009, 08:46 AM |
In the paper to-day it stated that Toronto Area is in for a record snow fall in fact it might end up the snowiest year since 1939. As of now 127cm or 55 inches have fallen and they are predicting it will top 200cm or 80 inches. Ain't winter grand.    |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 30-Jan-2009, 06:54 AM |
| Ain't winter just Friggin Lovely! Anther 5 cm here north of Toronto overnight and it's still falling. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 30-Jan-2009, 07:54 AM |
Shame on you both....grown men ranting  about snow....tsk...tsk...You should be spanked...and a good spanking at that Complaining about snow...I will keep an eye on you my friend Camac and if I read you complain this summer that it feels like a freaking Turkish bath....I'll get you. piobmhorpiper really...5cm of snow and you cry....but what is it you would prefer man ??? ...bombs. Winter is the most peaceful season...snow is refreshing and it's color is pure....white is pure.. Not that I don't like summer...what I don't like is the hot weather with humidity  that is simply a killer  ... no air, no energy   .. and everybody is on edge all the time. Now stop it and enjoy the view and the pleasure of walking outside and breath better...  LOA.  |
| Posted by: Camac 30-Jan-2009, 08:03 AM |
| Piobmhorpiper; There is a chance that another 15cm will be here on Monday. Nobody believes me but I'm telling you it is half way up the C.N. Tower. L.O.A.; It's kind of hard to go for a walk when you have to dig 100 feet straight up just to get to the surface and when you get there it isn't the surface just a big snow cave with another 100 feet above you. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 30-Jan-2009, 08:07 AM | ||
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| Posted by: Camac 30-Jan-2009, 08:19 AM |
| LOA' The snow is so deep that the Inuit are hitching their dog sleds to the Radio Mast on top of the C.N.Tower. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 30-Jan-2009, 08:25 AM |
| ROFLMAO!!!! You my friend are the "master" of exaggeration and I love it...you're the best  you just crack me up...LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 30-Jan-2009, 08:51 AM |
| LOA; Remember Bear? I think he's back. Could swear I saw him running down the street last night being chased by a snowplow. He's so dumb didn't know all he had to do was get on the sidewalk and let the plow pass. Camac. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 01-Feb-2009, 10:15 AM |
| Lady Of Avalon, I am glad you enjoy winter the way you do. I used to enjoy it in my younger years but when you get the amount of snow that we hear in Lindsay have been getting it you come to hate and dispise it's very existance. Granted 5cm of snow is but a dusting, but dusting after dusting, after DUMPING, is way too much. Please tell me where I am going to put another 5cm!  |
| Posted by: Harlot 01-Feb-2009, 10:38 AM |
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is NO WAY I would live there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 01-Feb-2009, 01:03 PM | ||
ROFLMAO piobmhorpiper, You might call this a "natural soundproof insulation"....humphhht!!!! We dig tunnels here under the snow like passegeways...it's a lot of fun you know. Besides it seems worse than what it really is for the city is not really wise to "dump" it all off on residents properties. Instead of having the snowblowers blowing it on you shouldn't they have trucks in front of them and then dump it all where it belongs, at the snow dump site somewhere??? And I see that some of the snow on the roof top have been dump in front of the house as well so no wonder it piles up at one point....ah!!! city folks...  Nah!nah!piobmhorpiper don't try to pass this one on me...I know the tricks...it seems worse than what is really is!!! dumping snow from the roof top...tsk tsk. And Camac,,,how come bear is in your area again...did you invite him for supper again??? And then threw him out on his arse outside???? Bad man you!!! LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 01-Feb-2009, 01:08 PM |
| LOA; Nah, it wasn't Bear. It was a neighbour with a white fur coat on running amok from cabin fever. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 01-Feb-2009, 01:09 PM | ||
That's better... |
| Posted by: Faerydreamer 01-Feb-2009, 08:43 PM |
| I do not want anymore of that white crap. I have had it with winter and the cold weather. I remember when western NY looked like that house a few years ago. They were actually taking some of the snow and putting into the lakes to try and clear it away. Of course, there is only so much that you can put there too. |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 01-Feb-2009, 09:21 PM |
| We still have uses for it! |
| Posted by: Harlot 01-Feb-2009, 09:26 PM |
| Send it to Dogshirt, he wants it |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 01-Feb-2009, 09:27 PM |
| The first is my wife and one of our teams, this team belongs to a friend. Carol is just in from 25 mile run, for the 3rd day in a row. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 02-Feb-2009, 05:41 AM | ||
Hey great idea Harlot, My he will pick up the trucking fees! |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 02-Feb-2009, 08:09 PM |
NO FEES! If you want me to take it, YOU pay for shipping!  |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 04-Feb-2009, 05:49 AM |
| Carmac I too suspect thatt his is the case. However I will have Nunivit! |
| Posted by: ogdenmusic 04-Feb-2009, 07:09 AM |
| You guys can keep your white death. No more snow for me. Out here in the desert today it will be 82 degrees for the high temperature. Sounds just right for a walk around the neighborhood and maybe some tea out on the patio. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 06-Feb-2009, 06:05 AM |
| Well it seams mother nature is giving us a break for the next couple of days. Temps are going to be 6C this weekend and stay around -2 to 4 or 5C all next week! Rain is also in our forcast so it could get ugly around here. What with the warmer weather melting the snow and then the rain....we could have some areas flooding and then when the temps drop we will be able to skate from Toronto to Montreal! |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 06-Feb-2009, 07:10 AM |
| What a great idea piobmhorpiper... Let me know if you decide on coming up to Montreal on skates...I'll go downtown and meet you in mine and we'll skate our way around that nice city and don't forget to wear your kilt...I'd like to see that... a Scot in kilt wearing skates with no underwear of course   Oh! and bring the pipe ...yeah that's what missing here a bit of action.LOA  |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 06-Feb-2009, 11:04 AM |
Lady Of Avalon it's a date! I have been on ice before in my kilt and of course I am a traditionalist! Only it was at a curling bonspiel I piped for it and then joined my team for the game. I only slipped to the surface once but I drew a crowd when it was my turn to toss the rocks!  |
| Posted by: Camac 06-Feb-2009, 01:23 PM |
| piobmhorpiper; I just read your post to L.O.A. and sir I must formally inform you that if you wish to make a date with L.O.A. you must first seek my permission as she is an Honourary Daughter of my House. Clan Campbell-MacArthur. . You do of course agree one must follow the acceptable norms in these affairs. Camac. P.S. I can be bribed.   |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 06-Feb-2009, 03:42 PM | ||
Some "Honourary Papa" you are eh!!! Sooooo, I'm on sale for a "bribe" I see...hmmmm!!! Men...they're all the same.... For this sin you won't to go hell where it's warm and cozy...you'll be sent to the North Pole where there is PLENTY of snow and ice for skating...hah! LOA  |
| Posted by: Camac 06-Feb-2009, 03:52 PM |
| LOA; It was but a jest I most sincerely repent forgive a doddering old fool. Idon't want to go to the North Pole it too cold. Camac.  |
| Posted by: jime307 06-Feb-2009, 05:03 PM |
| AAaah! too much snow! It'll snow here for a while then get warm and then freeze so everything's icy and it just plain stinks, the skiing is awful because it's all ice and getting around is a pain I want it to be summer so I can ride my bike and climb again! |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 06-Feb-2009, 07:56 PM |
| What a bunch of whiners!!!!!! It's winter! SUCK IT UP! If you can't deal with it, move to Miami! Otherwise SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 06-Feb-2009, 08:05 PM | ||
Here!here! I second that...bunch of spoil brats who wants their mommy and a lollipop...ouinnnn!!! and they call themselves "braw laddies" and "Scots"....pppppppphhhhhhhhhttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!! 'Tis a season to be jolly falalalalalalalala |
| Posted by: Camac 06-Feb-2009, 08:43 PM |
| LOA; I am cut to the quick. As a Senior Citizen (OLD FART) I have earned the right to complain (Whine) about the cold. Why when I was a kid I had to walk 20 miles to school and 20 miles home in only a tee shirt and shorts and moccassins on my feet in howling blizzards at 60 below and 30 feet of snow. Let me tell you that was chilly. Camac. PS: had to walk home for lunch and back also.  |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 07-Feb-2009, 09:17 AM |
| And it was uphill BOTH ways too! |
| Posted by: Camac 07-Feb-2009, 09:23 AM |
| Dogshirt; No the last 60 feet was downhill as I had to slide down the drift that had buried the house. Camac |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 07-Feb-2009, 11:39 AM | ||
My dear friend, As much as I respect the senior citizens and all as I've worked pretty much all my life with seniors...no one "earns" the right to complain...no IMHO and you may not like it but I think it is more in the human persona to complain all the time...over nothing and everything. My parents did the same as you did...they had to walk to school for over an hour an a half morning and night...that was life then. And even now my mom and dad enjoys very much the winter season for it's beauty and enjoys feeding the birds and little wild animals that comes near their house. My mom who is 75 though tired lately still shovels snow and enjoys it very much as she is outside and breath fresh air. No...I don't think my friend that senior citizens earned the right to complain...they have taken that right 'tis not the same. but I like them all the same even the "crusty old farts"...  for my dad is the champ at "whining".LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 07-Feb-2009, 11:54 AM |
| LOA; I but merely jest and tease. Surely by now you know that I love to tease and exaggerate. If I could not laugh at myself and tell whoppers about my mis-spent youth I go NUTS, BUGGO, WHACKY, and BONKERS, all at once. At least once a month my daughters threaten to have me locked up as they swear I'm over the edge. Ah Blee Blee, that's all folks. Camac.    |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 07-Feb-2009, 11:57 AM |
| Make that 3 daughters my honourary father!!! LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 07-Feb-2009, 12:08 PM |
| LOA; To get back to the subject at hand. It is 6C outside and the snow is melting. If this keeps up I'll go up to the roof and sunbathe. It won't though as they are calling for 15cm of snow by Wednesday. Tis truly "The Winter of our Discontent" Camac. PS' I am doomed as I now have three who want to lock me up and throw AWAY THE KEY. |
| Posted by: oldraven 07-Feb-2009, 03:10 PM |
| It snowed yesterday, it snowed earlier this week, as well as dropped freezing rain, it did the same thing last week, and we've had blizzards already before that. New Years Eve was a particularly crazy blizzard, where we were actually snowed in at Angela's parents' house. We didn't get home until the night of the 2nd. And February just got started. I don't expect to see grass until April. |
| Posted by: Camac 07-Feb-2009, 08:38 PM |
| oldraven; On the News to-night they were talking about 127 of our American cousin who had to be rescued from an ice flow on Lake Erie just off shore from Ohio. It seems they were going fishing and there was a large crack in the ice so they build a bridge made of wooden pallets across the crack. Well what with the warmer temp. and the winds the flow shiffted and the make shift bridge floated away leaving them all stranded on the flow. Both the US Coast Guard and Rescue Canada had to air lift them all to safety from about 1Kilometre out in the lake. The local Sheriff summed it all up in one sentence. He said "Talk about dumb" and something about there not being any law agaist stupid. People never learn. Every year ice fisherman get straned on Lake Simcoe north of Toronto because they don't heed the warning when the ice breaks up. The Toronto Police arrested a couple of people last week for walking from the Toronto Island to the mainland across the ice because they interfered with the ice breaker and delayed ferry traffic. Camac. |
| Posted by: sisterknight 10-Feb-2009, 07:41 PM |
well kids and old farts alike...strap on yer skates!!!!!freezing rain today, tonight and tomorrow!!!!of course that's just the royal icing on the snow cake and then to be told 6 more weeks of this...6....am i allowed to cry now???i've sucked up just about as much of this s##w!! make it stop......   |
| Posted by: Camac 10-Feb-2009, 08:09 PM |
| sisterknight; On the morrow it will be 11C here in good old southern Ontario then by the week end back to -2 or -3C., More than like snow like the blazes next week. COME THE SPRING! PLEASE. Camac |
| Posted by: Harlot 10-Feb-2009, 09:14 PM |
| The weather here gave us a bit of a shock 67 ,no snow, windows open, heat off, but wait there's rain and that white stuff coming back around again. Hurry Spring I can't take much more of this. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 11-Feb-2009, 03:24 AM |
Holy  It's 7c outside right now! Snow is melting and it's a little foggy out. I hope I've choosen the right time to go south! I wouldn't want to miss a week of nice weather up here. No matter what it will be here it will be better there! |
| Posted by: sisterknight 11-Feb-2009, 08:51 AM |
| ahhhh south ...but don't worry it'll still be winter when you get back!!!! as for me....well more rain in the forcast for today & tonight with a high of 5C!!! and SMOG!!!!! can you imagine??? |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 18-Feb-2009, 05:02 PM |
| SNOW IS IN THE AIR SNOW is in the air Everywhere I look around SNOW is in the air Every sight and every sound And I don't know if I'm being foolish Don't know if I'm being wise But it's something that I'M REALLY ENJOYING And it's there when I JUST LOOK OUTSIDE SNOW is in the air In the whisper of the trees SNOW is in the air In the DRIVEWAYS AND EVERYWHERE And I don't know if I'm just dreaming Don't know if I feel sane But it's something that I'M REALLY ENJOYING And it's there CALLING OUT MY NAME (Chorus) SNOW is in the air SNOW is in the air Oh oh oh Oh oh oh SNOW is in the air In the DRIVEWAY AND EVERYWHERESNOW is in the air When the day is nearly done And I don't know if IT'S an illusion Don't know if I see it true But IT'S something that I must believe in AS IT'S there FALLING DOWN IN THE STREETS SNOW is in the air Every sight and every sound And I don't know if I'm being foolish Don't know if I'm being wise But it's something that I'M REALLY ENJOYING AS it's there FALLING DOWN IN THE STREET....Oh! Dear...I think I'm in the wrong place here...sorry folks who don't like winter and are fed up...I really thought I was in the "What it's like outside?" thread...and was just describing what we are experiencing right now in a song you see.... I'm so so sorry...didn't mean to sing the "S" word for you guys... Oops! LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 18-Feb-2009, 05:27 PM |
| LOA; You will be punished.   Camac. |
| Posted by: Patch 18-Feb-2009, 07:08 PM |
| Snow is a 4 letter word! Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Camac 18-Feb-2009, 08:22 PM |
| Patch; Yeah but only in English. The Inuit have about 50 different names for it depending on the type. Personally I thought it was just called snow and I hate it no matter how many names it has. Did you know that Satan created it. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 18-Feb-2009, 08:25 PM |
Well then...Satan  and I must be friends indeed. |
| Posted by: Robert Phoenix 18-Feb-2009, 09:26 PM |
| We had a couple nice sunny days up here for a change. So nice they had to cancel a couple winter events in the area including the Copper Peak snowmobile hill climb. But then it all went sour today. Back to the cold wind and low temps. Now all that melted snow that was on the roads is now all iced up again and driving is a pain in the arse! |
| Posted by: sisterknight 19-Feb-2009, 09:49 AM |
| ok now that's just evil Robert!!! snow yesterday, snow today and snow tomorrow...this sooooo sucks |
| Posted by: Harlot 19-Feb-2009, 10:36 AM |
| Light Snow Feels Like:18° Barometer:29.85 in and steady Humidity:75% Visibility:2 mi Dewpoint:12° Wind:WNW 16 mph Sunrise:7:31 am Sunset:6:20 pm BUUUUURRRRRRRRRR This is what I get too look forward too Today: Occasional snow showers. Quite windy. Some blowing and drifting snow. High around 20F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 90%. About one inch of snow expected. Tonight: Snow showers. Low near 15F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 70%. 1 to 2 inches of snow expected. Tomorrow: Mainly cloudy with snow showers around in the morning. High 26F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Tomorrow night: Mostly cloudy with snow showers developing after midnight. Low 19F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Saturday: Periods of snow. Highs in the mid 20s and lows in the low teens. Sunday: Cloudy with flurries. Highs in the mid 20s and lows in the low teens. Monday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 20s and lows in the mid teens. |
| Posted by: sisterknight 19-Feb-2009, 10:38 AM |
| ok...so part of that is welcome to my world!!! |
| Posted by: Camac 19-Feb-2009, 01:33 PM |
| [SIZE=14] " TIS TRULY THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT" Camac |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 19-Feb-2009, 06:44 PM |
| Just a little video to remind you of your predicament! http://www.thefunnystuff.net/viewmovie.php?id=1121 So is that a game you folks like to play? Is jumping out of the car optional?  |
| Posted by: Leelee 19-Feb-2009, 06:49 PM | ||
A mate of mine sent me this video.....our winter's are that CRAZY, but oh so true....as for jumping out of the vehicle....that's just nuts  |
| Posted by: Harlot 19-Feb-2009, 07:25 PM | ||
SLMAO The Jeep with the deer catcher looks like one I had at one time |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 19-Feb-2009, 09:31 PM |
| What the hell is the big deal with snow? We've had a total of 6'6" this winter, and I'm up for more! Is it because you can't wear your shorts and sandles? I wear BOTH all year 'round. JEEZE!!!! |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 19-Feb-2009, 09:45 PM |
| Dogshirt, They're just a bunch of "ninnies" afraid of a bit of cold on their skin...they prefer to roast themselves under the sun and get all wrinkled up and look like this  before their time....If only they knew how the cold is good for the skin... And yeah me too would like to see more of it...  LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 20-Feb-2009, 08:35 AM |
| LOA; Baffin Island has snow and cold all year round. I,m told it a lovely spot. Bear goes there all the time. Camac. |
| Posted by: InRi 20-Feb-2009, 12:59 PM | ||
I have an other question: Did anyone heard something about snow-chains there? These things can be worth their weight in gold. I have to use these instruments quite often and everytime I congratulate myself that I arrived this decision. No games, no jumping out of the car and try to stop it by keep hold of the door - the only thing you do - a littlebit more careful brake and bring the car to a halt early enough - or/and you simply dodge the predicament... So we do it in Austria... Yes, I am catty today Regards from Austria Ingo |
| Posted by: Camac 20-Feb-2009, 03:38 PM |
| INri; We use to have tire chains but they were outlawed years ago, so were studded tires. They chewed the roads up to badly. Camac |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 20-Feb-2009, 06:29 PM |
My wife and just got back from The Dominican last night to a frigid welcome at the Toronto airport of -14C. After enjoying temps at 26-30C for 7 days. And we also landed during a snow storm. Only good thing is we statred the car remotely from the train as we passed over the parking lot so the car was all warmed up before we got in it. Thoroughly enjoyed the white outs we passed through on our two hour drive home as it almost totaly made us forget about our week in the sun. Oh Canada I'm so happy to back in your arms......NOT!  |
| Posted by: InRi 21-Feb-2009, 04:25 AM | ||
Hi Camac, I think there's to discuss what's more important: Clean roads in summer and in every winter a lot of disorders in traffic because of accidents with physical and personal damages - or lots of more safety in winter at the cost to repair a bit more in summer. I'm sure in your road system are existing road works (especially in summer) too. I think the one or another road work more don't carry weight - the more so as snow chains or studded tires don't kill a road directly and complete, even more there is snow enough... so that the work during the warm season should be manageable. We have here in Austria a lot of roads where in winter (especially trucks and pick-up trucks, but sometime all vehicles too) binding have to use snow chains or studded tires. Mostly there are roads (and highways) through/within the Alps but also in the hills whre are dangerous inclines and/or a lot of traffic. And I can say that we have here in Austria a high qualitative road system. And the number of road works where correct winter damages keep within a limit. Best regards from Austria Ingo |
| Posted by: Camac 21-Feb-2009, 08:23 AM |
| InRi: As our road system is far more extensive than that of Europe and the volume of traffic per day far exceeds that of Europe it is just to expensive to repair roads that have been dammaged by chains and studs. Also we really don't have to worry about high elevations here in Ontario, the highest point is in a little town northwest of Toronto called Dundalk, It's about 455 metres or 1500 feet above sea level. When you stand in the centre of town everything and place in Ontario is downhill. Camac. |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 21-Feb-2009, 09:46 AM |
| In Washington we are divided by the Cascade Mtns. To get from one side of the state to the other we have to cross one of three mountain passes, the lowest of which is just over 3000 ft. With the weather coming in off of the Pacific, we can get some massive snow falls. It isn't unheard of to get 4 feet of snow in 36 hours. Because of this, we are REQUIRED to carry chains unless we have 4WD, and even then it's a real good idea to carry them. Do they chew up the roads? Yes, but ALL cross state travle and commerce would cease without them. |
| Posted by: InRi 21-Feb-2009, 01:13 PM |
| Dear Camac, I must say I haven't really an imagination how wide is Canada. Well, I can check it at a map but such great distances as there are for me elusive. I don't know how many kilometers roads are existing in Germany or Austria (I'm sure some thousands) but I think it's a trickle only in comparsion with the road system in Canada or U.S. As in Germany (by example) you have in Canada really great areas where you can go without chains or other additives all-the-year (a reasonable kind of moving a car assumed). You note Ontario... But I am sure too, that there are some regions too, where you'll get a lot of problems without chains disregarding all carefulness. Dogshirt, you describe exactly the situation that I mean... Yes, chains chew up the roads - if there too little snow on the road and so the chaims can scratch it (and driving there by chaimes is the same as a walk on eggshells). If there is snow enough you'll never reach the asphalt-covering. I have to go some days on roads (sideroads) where lies about until 30cm and more of the white stuff (upon each other ) and after I drove there you can't see the asphalt-cover. There you can't chew up the road. Of course it is wise to use chains if there is snow enough. Sometimes I have to mount the chains two or three times a day. Currently I didn't pull down the chains because I had to mount they everytime before I leave the main roads... (the most of my costumers reside away from the main roads... There is currently snow enough.Camac you can believe that I share your "ecstasy" about "the white stuff" absolutely I don't drive just for fun only, but I'm working for a parcel service and have to serve my load wherever it is needed and whatever the weather.Regards from Austria Ingo |
| Posted by: Camac 21-Feb-2009, 02:23 PM |
| InRi; Even though you can drop all the Continenal US inside Canada our road system is about 1/2 of the US. 90 Percent of Canada is wilderness. The 401 Highway which runs across the top of Toronto is the busiest highway in North America it carries more vehicle in this 100km stretch than the famous L.A. Freeway system. There is a automated counting system at the Junction of this highway and Keele street where the Provincial Ministry of Transport is located and it registers 1 MILLION vehicles every 24 hours. A lot of cars and trucks and if they had studs or chains there wouldn't be much of a highway left. It is 5,078 km as the goose flies from St. John's NFLD to Victoria B.C. Driving distance is 7,207 Km. or at 8 hours a day 11 days 2 hours and 50 mins. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 21-Feb-2009, 03:35 PM |
| And Ladies and Gentemen our forecast for tomorrow is...YES....that's right!!! S.N.O.W Well!Well!Well!What do you know???? Ain't life grand ???? Let's see...ah!Here is a nice poem dedicated to snow who happened to be from the Scottish poetry selection...  See the pretty snowflakes Falling from the sky, On the wall and housetops Soft and thick they lie. On the window ledges, On the branches bare, Now how fast they gather, Filling all the air. Look into the garden, Where the grass was green; Covered by the snowflakes, Not a blade is seen. Now the bare black bushes, All look soft and white, Every twig is laden - What a pretty sight! ~ Unknown author  LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 21-Feb-2009, 05:26 PM |
| I have been sitting here watching the snow falling for the past two hours and 15 mins. ago the no parking sign outside just slipped below the surface. The snow is now have way up the light standard and a herd of musk ox has taken refuge in the glaring light. I think they are being stalked by a pack of Arctic wolves. There have been reports that icebergs have been spotted on Lake Ontario and that a glacier is forming in the Humber river valley. The Ice Age cometh. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 21-Feb-2009, 06:28 PM | ||
Gracious Lord Almighty Camac what are we to do?????  If the snow is now that high and the musk ox is out on the run and are being stalked by a pack of Artic wolves  you should not go outside at all man... And do you think that when we'll meet this summer you could rent a car with studded tires as it is legal here in Quebec no problem...we know all about snow. La neige nous fait pas peur...nous autres les Français!!!!! LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 21-Feb-2009, 06:39 PM |
| LOA; Well I don't know about you but I'm going to bed and sleep till the spring thaw. Whenever it comes. Hey don't come to Ont. with studs the O.P.P will trow yuh hin jail and trow way de keys. Dems mean boogers. Camac PS: Just saw Bear heading south at full gallop. |
| Posted by: flora 22-Feb-2009, 08:22 PM |
| I understand those who are sick of the snow, but I just talked to my daughter who is seeing snow for the first time. To hear the excitement in her voice reminds me of when I first saw it. To those who are so blessed, remember there are some who envy you!!!! Flora |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 23-Feb-2009, 09:15 AM |
| This joke was sent to me from a very good friend of mine...and thanks for the good laugh my friend... So I'm posting it for your enjoyment and hope to bring a smile upon the faces of those who'll read it. It's all in good fun. Because Everyone In Canada Lives In An Igloo. Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, these are some questions people from all over the world are asking. Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted on an International Tourism Website. Obviously the answers are a joke; but the questions were really asked! Q:I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow(England) A.. We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around and watch them die. Q:Will I be able to see Polar Bears in the street? ( USA ) A: Depends on how much you've been drinking. Q:I want to walk from Vancouver to Toronto -can I follow the Railroad tracks? ( Sweden ) A: Sure, it's only Four thousand miles, take lots of water. Q:Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Canada ? ( Sweden ) A: So it's true what they say about Swedes.. Q: Are there any ATM's (cash machines) in Canada ? Can you send me a list of them in Toronto , Vancouver , Edmonton and Halifax ? ( England ) A: What, did your last slave die? Q:Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Canada ? ( USA ) A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe .. Ca-na-da is that big country to your North...oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Calgary . Come naked. Q:Which direction is North in Canada ? ( USA ) A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions. Q: Can I bring cutlery into Canada ?( England ) A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do . Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? ( USA ) A: Aus-t ri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is...oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Vancouver and in Calgary , straight after the hippo races. Come naked. Q: Do you have perfume in Canada ? ( Germany ) A: No, WE don't stink. Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Where can I sell it in Canada ?( USA ) A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather. Q: Can you tell me the regions in British Columbia where the female population is smaller than the male population? ( Italy ) A: Yes, gay nightclubs .. Q: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada ? ( USA ) A: Only at Thanksgiving. Q: Are there supermarkets in Toronto and is milk available all year round?( Germany ) A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of Vegan hunter/gathers. Milk is illegal. Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Canada , but I forget its name. It's a kind of big horse with horns. ( USA ) A: It's called a Moose. They are tall and very violent, eating the brains of anyone walking close to them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking. Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA ) A: Yes, but you will have to learn it first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thought it was funny!!!! LOA |
| Posted by: flora 23-Feb-2009, 09:33 AM |
| A Scotsman was invited for a visit to the home of his Canadian friend. Soon after the Scotsman arrived, he glanced out the window to see a huge beast just outside. He pointed, and asked his Canadian friend, "Och, lad, what's that?" The Canadian replied, "Oh, that's a moose." The Scotsman stared in disbelief, and replied, "That's a moose?! Well, how big are yer cats around here?" Flora |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 23-Feb-2009, 09:35 AM | ||
Qu'essayez-vous de dire Willis? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k |
| Posted by: Harlot 23-Feb-2009, 09:36 AM |
| You Canadians are so funny |
| Posted by: Camac 23-Feb-2009, 09:59 AM |
| Harlot; It comes from living in perpetual ice and snow. If we don't laugh we would all cry. Also our government can be the biggest comedy show around. Then of course there are genetics,. Just look at Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Martin Short, Red Green, and who can forget the Fabulous MacKenzie Brothers. The Gods help I live in a country of head cases. MacEoghainn As a friend I once worked with, Gaston (Danny) Lemelin, use to say ; "Eh hi spack de henglish, but she is broke". Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 23-Feb-2009, 10:10 AM | ||||
Typical bad "american" translation....muahahahaha!!!!  LOA Hey Flora!!! Not that I want to go offtopic here but just to show you on this picture below this fantastic and quiet creature crossing the road in front of our car while driving in the Nova Scotian's Highlands mountains...I was out of my car just looking at the vistas in front of me when my husband whispered to me very gently to not make any sudden move and turn my head slowly to look at what was coming as he was still sitting behind the wheel in the car. There these animals are not particularly scared of humans as they are not hunted down...but it is quite a sight to have one so near you especially a big buck like that. Just thought to share it with you. LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 23-Feb-2009, 10:35 AM |
| flora; Some "wee moose" eh? Camac. |
| Posted by: MacEoghainn 23-Feb-2009, 01:10 PM | ||||||
Hey!!! What do you want? I can barely speak English (and then only the American version). |
| Posted by: Camac 23-Feb-2009, 02:03 PM |
| MacEoghainn;; That's all right. You can blame it on Webster. He tried to make American English distinctive from English English and screwed it all up. Camac. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 24-Feb-2009, 06:17 AM |
| We got back from the Dominican Last Friday, and now not a week later it feels like we never went anywhere. This was in my email when I got back and thought I would share it with you all. I have tried to clean it up a bit but be warrned it is graphic and full of that famous four letter word....SNOW! Date: Sun, 3 Nov Ah,yes... O Canada, Our home and native land! Dear Diary Aug. 12 - Moved to our new home in Canada. I am so excited. It's so beautiful here. The mountains are so majestic. Can hardly wait to see them with snow covering them. Oct. 14 - Canada -- it is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves have turned all colors and shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the beautiful countryside and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most wonderful animals on earth. This must be paradise. I love it here! Nov. 11 - Remembrance Day. Deer season starts soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous creature. Hope it snows soon. I love it here! Dec. 2 - It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed with white. It looks like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won). When the snow plough came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. I love Canada! Dec. 12 - More snow last night. The snow plough did his trick again to the driveway. I love it here. Dec. 19 - More snow last night. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work. It's beautiful here but I'm exhausted from shoveling. Damn snow plough. Dec. 22 - More of that white fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands and a sore back from shoveling. I think the snow plough hides around the corner until I'm done shoveling the driveway. A$$hole. Dec. 25 - Merry Freaking Christmas! More frigging snow. If I ever get my hands on the sonovabitch who drives the snow plough, I swear I'll kill the bastard. Don't know why they don't use more salt on the roads to melt the damn ice. Dec. 27 - More white last night. Been inside for three days now except for shoveling out the driveway after that snow plough goes through every time. Can't go anywhere, the car's stuck in a mountain of white crap and it is so frigging cold. The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the crap again tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is? Dec. 28 - That stupid weatherman was wrong. We got 34 inches of the crap this time. At this rate it won't melt before summer. The snow plough got stuck up in the road and that bastard came to my door and asked to borrow my shovel. After I told him that I had already broken six shovels shoveling out all the crap he had pushed into my driveway, I damn near broke my last one over his freaking head. Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on my way back a damned deer ran in front of the car. Did about $3,000 damage to the car. Those beasts should be killed. The bastards are everywhere. Wish the hunters had exterminated them all last November. May 3 - Took the car to the garage in town. Would you believe the thing is rusted out from all that salt they put all over the roads. May 10 - Moved to Florida. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever want to live in such a God forsaken place as Canada! |
| Posted by: Camac 24-Feb-2009, 08:25 AM |
| piobmhorpiper; Despite it all we still LOVE our Home and Native Land. I'll assume you know who Dave Duval is on CTV. He's retiring so people won't have to look at his smiling face as he predicts another zillion inches of that white crap. Camac. |
| Posted by: piobmhorpiper 24-Feb-2009, 01:11 PM | ||
Oh yes I know good ole Dave! I acctually met him once at The Fergus Highland Games and he recruited me for the Pepsi Challange. However it never aired as I picked Coke! Just where the heck did that expression come from that states"It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" Well here's the answer: It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships.. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys. Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey. Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you? Now you Know! |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 24-Feb-2009, 01:19 PM | ||
My dear Honourary papa...I will tell you a confidence....you know me as Diane Cook but my maiden name is Diane Duval....*cough*cough* and it happens that I have a smiling face when that Duval bozo predicts another zillion inches of that SNOW crap like you call it. piobmhorpiper here's one for you and my dear papa here the other ...crybabies LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 24-Feb-2009, 02:04 PM |
| LOA; I know your maiden name is Duval and I must apologize as I spelt The other guys name wrong. It's Deval instead of Duval and he Irish descent. Sorry I screwed up. Hey I'm am an old fart I'm allowed to make mistakes now and then, mon Fille d' honnuer. Camac. |
| Posted by: Lady-of-Avalon 24-Feb-2009, 05:23 PM | ||
You know I will forgive you anything  even though you hate SNOW.... LOA |
| Posted by: Camac 25-Feb-2009, 09:18 AM |
| LOA; You know that I teasingly gripe about winter and snow, I really am not amoured of the white stuff' but last night for some reason I thought of the times as a kid rushing to get outside and play in the snow or go skating. I also thought of the winter of 1974-75 our first winter in our first house up in Orangeville. There was one night I will never forget, it was after dinner and we had gone for a walk, with me pulling a four year old Paula on her sleigh. It was a beautiful winters' eve clear crisp and there was at leat three feet of snow on the ground. As we headed for home it became so quiet and then this gentle snowfall began, the Flakes were the size of quarters, it was as they say a magical moment, When we stopped for a minute to just watch the snow drift down Paula asked why we had stopped. I remember saying shush peanut if you listen really hard you might hear the snow Faeries laughing. Well her eyes got the size of saucers and you could see her straining to hear. After we got home and she was getting ready for bed she kept telling her Mom that she had heard the Faeries. If you ask her to this day she will say she heard them. The things that pop into ones head, you think I was getting maudlin. Camac. |
| Posted by: togo 01-Mar-2009, 10:08 AM |
| Here we go again in New England! A dusting of just a couple of inches today BUT overnight 12 -16 inches into tomorrow in my area. Getting the snow blower gassed up and ready to go. I am sick of the snow but I have to admit it does look very pretty coming down outside my window right now. Maybe I'm getting a little sentimental knowing that it could be one of our last ones of the year (most likely not!). Spring is around the corner right?? Someone convince me. It does look nice now but I'll be cursing it again tomorrow. |
| Posted by: Dogshirt 01-Mar-2009, 11:27 AM |
| We are back to doing siding on the house at work. I would WAY rather do it in the snow than in mud up to my knees! Since all new houses are backfilled with freshly moved earth and no grass going yet, it will turn into a sea of slimy muck with just a cup of water! I don't even want to consider what happens when the snow melts! |
| Posted by: Harlot 01-Mar-2009, 11:52 AM | ||
Camac, What a lovely story that was ,I will have too remember and tell my grand daughter she believes in Faeries and tells me about them. I too will have too listen for them the next time it snows here. Harlot |
| Posted by: Camac 01-Mar-2009, 11:54 AM |
| Well as the old saying goes "March, in like a Lamb out like a Lion" guess what the little lamb is playing ouside right now. Sunny, clear , and crisp. Camac. |