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Surrey, BC
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Re: [Weather] Winter? Although we get more mild winters than you guys it's still more mild than usual.
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 Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:5 | said by holy moly :Why are Canadians so obsessed with the weather ?
Because we have it!
I remember visiting my brother in California who dispelled the myth that California has no weather. "Totally false, he said. "There are definitely seasons. In the summer it's dry and cloudless, but in the winter there are clouds and sometimes it rains." |
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 MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
kudos:1 | reply to HiVolt
Look in the bright side. No one is out there, shoveling through 1-3m dumps like we had last year, and sudden temperature drops that go on for weeks. |
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said by holy moly :Why are Canadians so obsessed with the weather ? Because when we're snowed in the only thing we have to do is have copious amounts of sex.
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
kudos:1 | reply to HiVolt
Its not even February folks.Dont get your nickers all riled up yet.Lots of cold shit could come any day |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
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said by donoreo:said by elwoodblues:I hit the road after I shoveled everything and some moron taxi driver comes out of his apartment driveway, he hadn't cleaned a bit of snow off the top/back of his car.
The entire back was covered in snow. Damn cops should have nailed his ass for obstructed view. I see this all the time, batch of lazy ass people, who refuse to clean their cars, and figure the wind will take care of it.
This pisses me off too. Lazy people that clean nothing other than the windshield or even just part of the windshield. Funny you bring that up, I know they have snow brushes. During that heavy snow winter we had a few years back, I got up to shovel the snow in the morning, and there was a car stuck up the road, a taxi. A live on a little side street and it rarely gets plowed so I suspect the driver got stuck overnight.
We called the cops, and while waiting the "owner" came by and tried to unstuck the car by shoveling with a snow brush. Needless to say the cops told the owner, they now owned the car and he couldn't touch it. A tow truck showed up at the top of the 4 way , dragged a cable a good distance down the road to pull out the car.
I'd hate to have seen the bill.
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
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said by elwoodblues:The entire back was covered in snow. Damn cops should have nailed his ass for obstructed view. I see this all the time, batch of lazy ass people, who refuse to clean their cars, and figure the wind will take care of it. You don't have to see out the back of your car if you have two side mirrors. And there are a lot of lazy people, but some people can't reach the top of their car. I can't it's a pain in the ass, I don't have more than 2" of rotation above the top of my shoulder. Makes it difficult to clean the top of a vehicle.  Though I do pay the neighbor kid to do it for me. |
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said by Wolfie00:said by holy moly :Why are Canadians so obsessed with the weather ?
Because we have it! I remember visiting my brother in California who dispelled the myth that California has no weather. "Totally false, he said. "There are definitely seasons. In the summer it's dry and cloudless, but in the winter there are clouds and sometimes it rains." Nonsense. California has four seasons just like the rest of the world. Fire, Flood, Earthquake and Mud! |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 | But fire and mud only happens on the hills where there are epensive homes. It is a natural renewall cycle resulting in brand new even more expensive homes being built which will be destroyed by the next season of fire/mud slides. |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 | reply to Wolfie00
There is a real snow fall today in Montreal. Had to meet someone at a Tim Hortons and decided to go there by bike. Temperature at -8 and nice real dry snow. But a fair amount of it, so the bike riding was challenging but quite doable.
They are predicting freezing rain, but I think this is a default prediction to cover their asses. It is too cold for freezing rain. |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand Reviews:
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said by Mashiki:said by elwoodblues:The entire back was covered in snow. Damn cops should have nailed his ass for obstructed view. I see this all the time, batch of lazy ass people, who refuse to clean their cars, and figure the wind will take care of it. You don't have to see out the back of your car if you have two side mirrors. And there are a lot of lazy people, but some people can't reach the top of their car. I can't it's a pain in the ass, I don't have more than 2" of rotation above the top of my shoulder. Makes it difficult to clean the top of a vehicle. Though I do pay the neighbor kid to do it for me. Everybody has 2 side mirrors, whether mirror on the right is setup correctly and you know how to use it. Note I said TAXI DRIVER, come to Toronto to see what they are like.
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
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said by jfmezei:There is a real snow fall today in Montreal. Had to meet someone at a Tim Hortons and decided to go there by bike. Temperature at -8 and nice real dry snow. But a fair amount of it, so the bike riding was challenging but quite doable.
You're hard core, but pure nuts...
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... |
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peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | reply to HiVolt
Ok I'm lining up things for bikeweek in Daytona and this mild weather is pissing me off.
I want -30 and 10 feet of snow for the next month so I can feel all giddy while I'm down south. |
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Nobody says it better than Environment Canada themselves
»www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/···?cmp=rss
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Environment Canada blows winter forecast
Environment Canada admits it was off its long-term forecast for Western Canada's winter.
In the fall, when the weather service was predicting what it would be like this winter, it said be prepared for temperatures colder than normal.
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"Boy, never have we been more wrong in the West as this year," said Dave Phillips, chief climatologist for Environment Canada.
"I mean, you know, to have just been normal would have been a real error," he added.
"But my gosh, when you come out of December and January to be the second-warmest on record, I mean, it really is embarrassing almost. I mean it truly, when you look at it, it's been sort of the non-winter."
In Winnipeg, the average daily high in December 2011 was –3.5 C. The normal is –9.7 C. Snowfall for the month was 5.2 cm, while the normal is 19.8 cm.
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Wolfie00My dog is an elitistPremium
join:2005-03-12
kudos:5 | reply to lugnut
said by lugnut :said by Wolfie00:said by holy moly :Why are Canadians so obsessed with the weather ?
Because we have it! I remember visiting my brother in California who dispelled the myth that California has no weather. "Totally false, he said. "There are definitely seasons. In the summer it's dry and cloudless, but in the winter there are clouds and sometimes it rains." Nonsense. California has four seasons just like the rest of the world. Fire, Flood, Earthquake and Mud! He has never experienced either fire, flood, or mud. But I must say, seeing the swimming pool turned into a awesome wave pool was pretty cool! People outside of earthquake zones tend to think of it as a sort of vibration, but it's really more like a large-amplitude swaying.
And personally, with my Canadian heritage and collection of nostalgic Christmas lights and decorations that look nice against the white snowfall, I'd frankly rather have real Canadian winters. That's why I'm still here!  |
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MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
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Woodstock, ON
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said by elwoodblues:Everybody has 2 side mirrors, whether mirror on the right is setup correctly and you know how to use it. Note I said TAXI DRIVER, come to Toronto to see what they are like.
No actually they don't. Which is why the law states you have to have two side mirrors, or a clear back window and a drivers mirror. I've owned two different cars which didn't have a passenger side mirror. Taxi driver doesn't mean squat. But I've been to Toronto more times than I like, I commuted there from woodstock for nearly a year back about 10 years ago, and I'm still up there every few weeks. |
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join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to HiVolt
Wanna trade weather for a couple of days?
As if that weren't enough, I got home tonight to discover that my water heater was leaking. |
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It's still 10C at PIA and my backyard weather station is reading 9.8C.
The nearly 3" of snow we got yesterday are all but gone.
Just crazy.
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RiamenPremium
join:2002-11-04
Calgary | reply to HiVolt
Not much of a winter here either. Haven't seen one this warm since 1992 when it hit 22°C in February. |
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