Catpaw – diary of an angry cat

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.

Stumble it!