Ho, ho hoooo my god it’s snowing outside!

Posted on | November 22, 2007 | 3 Comments

I awoke this morning to see snow! Ice! YUCK… yes indeed folks, its the first official snow storm of the winter. Not much out there, but we got a lot of freezing rain during the night. Its guaranteed to make for a slippery, messy morning. Since the muck started sometime last night, the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police who patrol our highways here in Ontario) have responded to over 200 collisions. That’s a lot of dented fenders. The figure doesn’t take into account how many fender benders took place here in the city itself. According to the spokesperson for the OPP, 100 of the collisions occurred over night but as of the start of rush hour this morning, police were seeing about 1 collision a minute. Most of the bang ups will be fender dents and crunches and cars skidding into the ditch because drivers won’t slow down.

It’s always nasty on the roads during the first storm of the season. Canadian’s seem to suffer from collective amnesia – we forget how to drive in winter conditions during our long, lovely summers and go into shock each time the snow and freezing rain falls. We are expected to get between 10 to 15 centimetres of snow (3 to 5 inches of the white stuff for not metric readers).

School buses are  cancelled so its a much anticipated “snow day” for a lot of kids – no school! Loved them when I was a kid. The weather also means Toronto’s fleet of 200 salt trucks will be out in force. All that salt is so hard on the shoes! Not to mention all that slippery ice is hard on the backside when you slip and fall.

All in all a good day to stay home and enjoy a crackling fire and good book. Alas, this little cat has to head out into the stuff in about an hour. So many computers to fix, so little time.

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Category: Day in the Life, Toronto, Weather

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3 Responses to “Ho, ho hoooo my god it’s snowing outside!”

  1. bimmy the bookish
    November 23rd, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

    Oh, but don’t you love that special silence that real snow brings?
    Or are there too many cars crunching into each other breaking the blissful quiet??
    Will you have snow right through the winter now?
    One of the interesting aspects of blog reading is the wide variety of weather conditions prevailing – or is it just us British types who obsess over the weather all the time?!

  2. catpaw
    November 24th, 2007 @ 12:02 pm

    Well, it is special during a snow – and Christmas just doesn’t feel right without it. There was far too much traffic honking to enjoy the snow.
    The great Canadian pass time is fretting about the weather – must be the British influence!

    Bit early for snow for us – will warm up a bit and the snow will be gone for awhile.

    Toronto is in the Ontario banana belt – we don’t get nearly the snow everyone around us gets for some reason. A big storm could be waging all around us and we just get sprinkled on.

  3. Roufa Tav Gosou & Mimi Lass
    November 29th, 2007 @ 11:05 am

    We bananas hate snow! Although we can be just as slippery.