Today marked the biggest storm of winter 2007. Starting from yesterday evening around the evening commute, snow started falling steadily. All through the night while all of us were fast asleep, the snow kept coming down. Enough that when I woke up this morning nearly a foot and a half of snow had fallen. All through the morning it continued to snow even more, so that when the snow stopped falling around noontime, in total Toronto had accumulated just a bit more than a foot and a half. Knee-deep in snow would be an apt description of how much snow fell in the past 24 hours. But as impressive as a foot and a half of snow sounds, we were not the hardest hit in the province. Areas to the north and west of us were hit with two feet or more of snow.
Last night's snow was not the nice kind either. Combined with the wind, it was the kind of snow that blew right in your face so that no matter how wide the brim of your hat, it didn't shield you. Thankfully it was just snow though and it wasn't ice pellets -- imagine ice pellets hitting you in the face.
The roads were a mess this morning. I slid around on the road just driving out of my street because it wasn't plowed. Thankfully the main roads were ploughed and somewhat salted so that while the drive was slow, it wasn't as much of a white-knuckle drive.
The office was half empty with many people making it a self-imposed snow day.
A few pictorial illustrations of the day.
The view from my scrapbooking room. Believe it or not, this is a bedroom on the second floor. The snow had blown around so much that it covered the bottom layer of the window.
And this evening, after nearly an hour of shovelling (really, I need to invest in a snow blower, or a neighbourhood boy who will do the shovelling for me), the snowbanks on the side of the house. It doesn't look high, but it is! I know I am short, but the snowbanks are nearly waist high.
Last night's snow was not the nice kind either. Combined with the wind, it was the kind of snow that blew right in your face so that no matter how wide the brim of your hat, it didn't shield you. Thankfully it was just snow though and it wasn't ice pellets -- imagine ice pellets hitting you in the face.
The roads were a mess this morning. I slid around on the road just driving out of my street because it wasn't plowed. Thankfully the main roads were ploughed and somewhat salted so that while the drive was slow, it wasn't as much of a white-knuckle drive.
The office was half empty with many people making it a self-imposed snow day.
A few pictorial illustrations of the day.
The view from my scrapbooking room. Believe it or not, this is a bedroom on the second floor. The snow had blown around so much that it covered the bottom layer of the window.
And this evening, after nearly an hour of shovelling (really, I need to invest in a snow blower, or a neighbourhood boy who will do the shovelling for me), the snowbanks on the side of the house. It doesn't look high, but it is! I know I am short, but the snowbanks are nearly waist high.
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