BC Deepfreeze!

[trevor]

Our garbage collection got cancelled today....lol..quite a place we live.

[Rob S.]

Our garbage collection got cancelled today....lol..quite a place we live.

Sounds like New York. When it snows heavy, they put plows and chains on the trucks and they don't collect garbage.

I remember the brouhaha in the '60's when Mayor Lindsay didn't get the plows out quick enough and everyone said it cost him the Presidency. (This was way back when there was such a thing as a "Liberal Republican." He ran as an independent, later switched to the Dems, and was considered a front runner for the Presidential candidacy. Then he didn't clear the streets quick enough. Feb. 9-10, 1969. A full week off from school!)

[RustyTank]

Our garbage collection got cancelled today....lol..quite a place we live.

HA! Yeah, we got snow dumped on us as well. Our garbage collection was pushed out to next week down here Trevor.

[bccap]

Our garbage collection got cancelled today....lol..quite a place we live.

So was ours and we don't even have any snow .....Whusses .......

[trevor]

HA! Yeah, we got snow dumped on us as well. Our garbage collection was pushed out to next week down here Trevor.

Hardly happened in Ontario.... lol

[DaveR]

We got a bit of a chill happening here. -29c (-20f) and about 18" of snow in last 48 hours.

Our Place 2021 by soates50, on Flickr

What stands out is the 18” of snow with a long double width driveway. This area received the tail end of that storm, about 6”. Ours and my 99 year old neighbours shovelling/blowing took 3 hours. We like that though.

[argonsagas]

What stands out is the 18” of snow with a long double width driveway. This area received the tail end of that storm, about 6”. Ours and my 99 year old neighbours shovelling/blowing took 3 hours. We like that though.

Weather can be very different, not only geographically, but at different times and/or years.

I used to live a few miles north of Toronto and commonly got what you show in the photo. The house was on a cul-de-sac and the wind seemed to swirl just for me, and dump sometimes two or three times the amount of snow that my neighbours got.


The worst snowfall we got was after a very windy night that left all roads closed in the town. I am not sure if the photo is still around but there was one of me holding a yardstick in the snow. It measured thirty-two inches on my driveway and only five inches with my neighbour, directly across the street. the street itself was blocked entirely, so, when they got their own driveways cleaned out, the neighbours gathered at my house to help out. Coffee with various alcoholic mixes was absorbed........ No one felt cold, and no one drove anywhere that day.

The widest temperature difference (and the coldest day we had while I lived there) was one morning when it was -25F /-32C as I left for work and only one hour later, when I got to downtown Toronto, it was a nice, warm, 0F/-18C.

This is unheard of in Vancouver so they are not prepared for it at all.

Good luck digging out, guys!

[Gorminrider]

This is unheard of in Vancouver so they are not prepared for it at all.

Not "unheard of". Cold snaps usually once a year. Some years are remarkable, is all, and weather being an economical newsfeed, the press always makes a big deal of it for the rest of Canada, bunkered in their proud misery.
We just have a bad memory and a steady quotient of stupid. This is December 2008...but I remember quite a few that i didn't bother taking pictures of.

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[trevor]

Of course this is not likely to happen again...lol

Check out the 96 photos....wow!

https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2016/12/20-years-ago-today-96-photos-blizzard-1996-victoria/

On the evening of December 26, 1996, it began to snow again and would continue over the next several days. Over 65 cm of snow fell December 28-29 alone, breaking records set in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto!

[bccap]

This is unheard of in Vancouver so they are not prepared for it at all.

Good luck digging out, guys!

I wouldn't say unheard of ... I can remember some pretty good dumps from my youth .... But I would agree we are not prepared for it . Vancouver is expecting 5 to 10 cm overnight tonight ..... And I can guarantee the city will be in gridlock tomorrow morning ..... When we got a light dusting of an inch or two a few years ago a bus on Davie Street which I was on slid out across the road blocking the street for hours because the idiot went into the unplowed bus stop on a hill instead of unloading from the plowed road like the bus I took down the hill did ..... We suck in the snow ! .......

[trevor]

I wouldn't say unheard of ... I can remember some pretty good dumps from my youth .... But I would agree we are not prepared for it . Vancouver is expecting 5 to 10 cm overnight tonight ..... And I can guarantee the city will be in gridlock tomorrow morning ..... When we got a light dusting of an inch or two a few years ago a bus on Davie Street which I was on slid out across the road blocking the street for hours because the idiot went into the unplowed bus stop on a hill instead of unloading from the plowed road like the bus I took down the hill did ..... We suck in the snow ! .......

Yes...my dumps are still pretty good but nothing like the ones from my youth! Lol...sorry Garth, I couldn't resist.

[RustyTank]

This is December 2008...but I remember quite a few that i didn't bother taking pictures of.

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I remember that winter storm in 2009! My girlfriend at the time (now my wife) and I had made plans to drive up to B.C. from Portland, OR. The storm had just started to hit the west coast when we left. We got up to B.C. just fine but I white knucked it the whole drive home a day later. There was so much snow that only one lane of traffic was open on I-5 the whole way back to Portland.

[Big T]

I've been hearing 17f yesterday and today for Portland and Seattle. What caught my attention was 'new record lowe?

Which is one reason I moved from northern WI to the warm side of the PNW.

32 days of sub zero F weather is motivation to move anywhere warmer. 19 F? Try 40 degrees F colder and toss in some wind chill.

[RustyTank]

19 F? Try 40 degrees F colder and toss in some wind chill.

Ya couldn't pay me enough, lol.

[Cipher]

Let the Western bastards freeze in the dark?