Oh my! That's a LOT of snow! I hope you guys are safe at least, with power and water. Where are you located again, woody?

The worst of the storm missed us here in lower southwest CT. We got about 2-3 inches, then rain, so I just shoveled three inches of heavy slush off everything. Temps are swinging kind of wildly. Twenties last night, 46 at 11am this morning, going back down to twenties tonight. Standing water everywhere - the ground is frozen so I guess there's now where for all the water to go. I imagine everything will be a sheet of ice in a few hours.

Stay safe there, and be careful shoveling!

:)

Dee

woody we are getting it too. Well over 24" and still coming down with white out conditions and heavy drifting. I will be heading out to shovel off the deck before our plow guy shows up. Crazy.

I just opened the door on the south side. This is the least amount anywhere on the property. Stay safe!

All we had was rain and now the sun is out and what little snow we had is gone. It was VERY windy all night and most of the morning here.

Luckily there was no power outages at all! We are in a western suburb town of Toronto. We are fairly near Lake Ontario - which can be good and bad - if the wind is NE or ENE down the lake (as it was for a fair bit last night) that is when we get ’lake effect’ snow… That might have contributed to the snow we got. So far there is still no sign of a plow on our road… The temperature is -2C (29F) and it was -2 to -4C for most of the storm. A few days ago the windchill was about -30 (which is pretty much the same in C or F) :-) A few days before that it was well above freezing! A very wierd winter so far… I’m pretty sure our wisterias will not be blooming this Spring. Shovelling slushy snow is not easy, so YOU be careful!

peren.all - I can see on the weathersatellite image that you would still be getting some snow but it should be mostly gone soon I think. We still have a small bit of flurries happening. Even if we had someone to clear snow for us, they couldn’t get here so far today! I hope your plow person can reach you!

this is a prime example of why you must have liquor stored for winter in the north ... untapped reserves ... lol ...

nothing here just south west of detroit ... where is your version of southern Ont??? .. out buffulo way ... im mean really .. ONT is yuge ..... or.. as we say in too many posts... big city location plz ....

ken

ps: good luck to hubby when the plow refills the driveway apron ...

pps: did you peeps know that windsor Ont ... is actually south of detroit ... whats that all about ... them and mexico .. go figure .... lol

ken - I did give ’big city’ info - we are west of Toronto, near the Lake.

The plow just went through (at 2:05) and DH and his sister have just gone out to clear the huge mess of snow it left on the end of our driveway!

Yes we know where Windsor and Detroit are :-)

Neighbour 'woody'!

It is usually that you get (way?) less snow than us.

Right now we are at 56 cm/22"...easy to measure using the accumulated snow on the table on our deck:

And in contrast, friends of ours sent this picture from their garden as of today in Victoria BC:

Because no snowplow has been down our street yet there is a 24" wall of snow on the road so we aren't able to go anywhere!

Lucky you have a snow blower as when the plow went by our place, of course after we had finished shoveling, the windrow created was over 2 feet high and 4 feet up our driveway.

Yes we know where Windsor and Detroit are :-)

==>> sure you do.. i was adding that for the other 49 states and provinces ... crikey half these peeps dont even know where MI is.. let alone Ont ... eh??

sorry if i missed the toronto part .....

did the rest of you notice they are NOT mentioning the liquor part ... lol ... what.. no labatts... the good labatts ... and if you go thru windsor.. may as well stock up on canadian club ... detroit bootleggers dream.. to have that whiskey plant right across a frozen river ... the purple gang shipped it to capone in chicago ... but i digress ...

ken

ps: probably the only two teetotalers in CAnada ... lol

Roller coaster weather here, has been raining for hours and turned the roads to absolute ice this morning. The snow pack has dropped down of recent, though my perennials yet remain nicely snugged in for the winter. Very cold returning for a few days, then milder again, soooo up and down! Looking at the weather models, it appears the cold just "might" decide to shift more so from western Canada into the east, only time will tell! I don't mind having COLD winters here, but I really hate when the cold lingers into April! Last spring we enjoyed the warmest March in 85 years, was wonderful scratching around out under the early warmth, other years the snow remains deep and unwilling to melt, sigh!! But, soon won't be long before I have several types of seed sown and by mid February there sure is a noticeable increase in daylight hours to be enjoyed!

rouge - the neighbor situation is odd - they’ve owned the house for at least 10 years but it was rented out so they didn’t care about things like fences. Now they are renovating to move in themselves so suddenly we have this wooden fence. Since the properties are not lined up exactly,the fence is only about halfway across the back, with the other half along the neighbourto the north’s property. Plus it goes down both sides of the neighbour’s property too. When we moved here in 1999 the neighbour to the north was afraid we’d put up a big wooden fence - there actually had been none at all since the houses were built in the estly 1960s! Because our dog at the time was a ’rescue’ dog thst was..um.. unreliably friendly with strangers we needed some sort of fence but were happy to agree to a 4’ chain,ink fence (which is now a 6’ fence as a result of a coyote attack on our current dog). The neighbour to the south is now over 90 so I’m sure we’ll soon be dealing with a knockdown followed by a big house and a big wooden fence. *sigh*

Yes I assume we usually get less snow in winter than you. Last winter we had 72cm. Before this storm we had only 11 cm so we’re now at about 64 cm. total. So we will probably have a higher total than normal by the end of this winter.

Friends moved to Victoria late last summer. So they have had to deal with more rain than normal and then the cold that struck out there. They are not too happy about it :-)

ken - wine is the preferred alcoholic drink here.

wine will work... especially if you have a cask in the basement ...

you know im bored. .and just messin' around.. right???

So, I for one, did not know Windsor was south of Detroit! Considering I absolutely LOVE maps, my knowledge of geography is strangely awful

I hope you guys with all this snow are doing okay! I almost wish we got snow here (although not two feet of it lol!) The ground has been frozen since it's so cold here, and with snow and then rain and warmer temps, there's nowhere for the water to go (hopefully NOT in my basement!). As I was shoveling all that slush I was standing in my driveway up past my ankles in standing water. I was literally using the shovel to scoop up water off the driveway and throw it on the grass (which is covered in snow, but figuring it would absorb better there than on the asphalt! Even if the ground IS frozen under the snow!).

I also shoveled off my leaching fields, as there was standing water there too - the slush was acting like a dam. Luckily for me my leaching fields are on an incline, so I shoveled a path down the incline for the water to drain off. Temps are supposed to go way back down tonight so I'm expecting lots of ice tomorrow, although it has been dry (no precipitation) for a few hours so maybe things will dry out a bit.

Rouge, your friend's photo is lovely and disheartening at the same time! I guess at least they didn't send a picture of themselves lounging on a beach in the sun sipping drinks with umbrellas in them lol!

Stay safe and dry (and sober, ken) everyone!

:)

Dee

I just opened the door on the south side.

That's craziness@peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada!

No snow for me, very heavy rain and crazy wind. Could not sleep for fear of any tornado warnings. There is supposed to be another southern storm brewing late in the week.

did you peeps know that windsor Ont ... is actually south of detroit ...

Maybe even more 'interesting'@ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5 is that the southern most point of Ontario (Canada also?) is Point Pelee Island (in Lake Erie) and geographically it lies on the 42nd parallel, making it the same latitude as northern California, Barcelona and Rome.

Now that's some proper snow

"making it the same latitude as northern California, Barcelona and Rome."

And I am south of Naples, but that doesn't help me with these frigid North American winters either! LOL.

woody being rural has its up sides. The township does an incredible job so the roads are cleared reliably and quickly. Our plow guy has not showed up yet but he or his son will. They have plenty to clear in their yard before they get to us. Our laneway is almost 1/4 mile so there is no way to shovel or snow-blow. We do have a Bobcat but my soon to be son in law works long hrs.

rouge crazy is right. I knew we would pay for having virtually no snow until now. I am surprised you & woody got as much as you did. I rather expect to get the max called for.

This is a rough beginning to the shoveling of the deck. Thankfully it was cold enough that the snow was light.

Ken I am about 45 miles southwest (mostly west) of Ottawa. I am roughly 4 hrs. from woody & rouge - over 200 miles.

I was just saying how our snow is melting too soon and we need another round, but I don't want as much as you all got, not all at once! And so cold! Stay safe out there!

FrozeBudd - I somehow missed your comment earlier…. One of our nephews lives in Canmore so we’ve been getting weather reports from out there :-) He’s an avid skier and it’s been too cold out there for him to enjoy skiing! At least it wasn’t too cold here today. I’ve been noticing the longer days already - very welcome to see!

Woody, yes, it's been a particularly very cold winter in western Canada, received a very nice reprieve the last few days and now back in the deep freeze before again turning milder in a few days time ... roller coaster!!

Wow! Now that's a lotta snow! We didn't get any here (I'm about an hour or so from Ken), it didn't go far enough north. I have been irked there's not enough snow for good cross-country skiing, I wouldn't have minded a decent dump of it.

mxk3 - one thing a storm like this makes me wonder.... - How do the snowplow drivers get to work if the road is impassible until it is plowed? Do they ski to work? ;-) Does anybody know the answer?

woody the drivers are in place before it becomes an issue. Any city or municipal plow operators are on call for any snow accumulation. It is difficult for them to make personal plans in winter.

Sherrygirl --- LOL! That must have really been something!

peren.all - that would make sense to have them on call and start working before the snow accumulation got too severe. But that means our street and other residential streets are so low priority that they don’t get to us until everywhere else is cleared. *sigh* That sure makes us feel unimportant!

Sherry - at least it wasn’t drifting that bad here - no dogs on the roofs :-)

Thought I would post this here. It’s my favorite spot to sit on a sunny day! :)

She likes it too! :)

Looks like she’s waiting for you…or daring you to come out and join her.

tj

I wish these old threads would list the month. I know we're not really looking for snow threads right now, but this one caught my eye...

It shows the date on the list of threads. January 17, 2022.

tj

Thank you! :-)