According to Environment Canada, only twice since 1902 has Saskatchewan received this much snow in April within a 72-hour time period.
Snowblowers and shovelling could not keep up with the 20-40 cm of snow dropping in just the past 24 hours.
Estevan received the most snow with 40 cm of the white stuff falling on that town.
The wind gusted up to 90 km/h in some spots, creating zero visibility for drivers. There were many road closures and some roads have yet to reopen.
The Trans Canada Hwy. is closed from Moosomin, near the Saskatchewan border, to Winnipeg.
Even in Regina, which the storm was supposed to miss, received up to 14 cm in parts of the city.
Regina activated their "snow roads" protocol, where they prioritize which streets get cleared first to help people move about the city and minimize accidents.
According to Environment Canada, the blizzard has moved on to Ontario.
Sleet and gusty winds are expected to continue in southeast Saskatchewan and Manitoba until Friday.
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Around Christmas I like to say, "Have a very Sherry Christmas and Hoppy* Holidays." I guess for Easter I'll just say Hoppy** Holidays.
*beer reference
**beer and bunny reference
Full of clap trap and commercial nonsense, not forgetting the church that also likes to take a slice of the action.
Minnesota (nedlud) here.
We will have a good family gathering Sunday at our oldest son's house. They do not live far away, just a few miles. Our other 2 children and families will be there. There will be smiles. Good food. As much joy as we can muster.
As for the weather, it is 23 degrees right now. A relatively small amount of snow, but with the wind, and when it should be in the 50's, enough for a frown.
Blessed Easter.
ned
Speaking of April holidays, here's wishing everyone a good time on the next international one coming up on this Wednesday: 4/20. May it be a green one.
Another thing we need to remember, weather and climate are 2 different things. We are still having winter in the same months and summer in the same months, and sometimes they are a bit colder or warmer, but that has always been. But they still happen at the same time. And our local radio is always saying the mean temperature of the Bay is rising, but a friend manages a fish farm, taking daily water temperatures, and she says nothing has changed. And her I believe, not the media. I've lived in Simcoe County and Parry Sound area my whole life, and you're right, nothing has changed.
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter as well.
Elon Musk offering to buy shares at $54.20. I'd sort have forgotten that.
I await the fresh water release because it will rapidly cool Western Europe and Eastern North America and hopefully destroy the idea that we Don't need conventional fuels to survive.
Then there is the Antarctic ice melt due to increasing underwater volcanic activity. This too will release all manner of fresh, cold water and cool the Southern hemisphere in the same way as the Beaufort gyre release works.
I've been growing a gnarly bush beard for a while. For one thing I can't really be bothered to shave plus it provides protection, especially against the elements and bug bites and stings. I just get rid of the moustache part with scissors once it gets annoying and I start getting food and drinks and nose-run in it.
Just like the race to create fake food, technology is trying to replicate the perfect insulator with 'extreme weather' clothing. I have some 'Outdoor Research' gear that is very good but nothing beats a Buffalo robe, especially up here.
At the moment I am in Edmonton, Alberta but my work and play takes me to Ft. McMurray and further north to exciting destinations like Fort Nelson, Whitehorse and Norman Wells.
Lots of facial hair on white people in those places.
I've heard it gets pretty cold in Edmonton though I don't follow much meteorological stuff. The wind in the winter (and blizzards or hail etc.) must be really harsh sometimes on the prairies around there. I think I read it was a brutal place to settle. (Never seen Little House on the Prairie, don't know).
On a family vacation we went through the prairies and I remember flat land with wheat growing as far as I could see, and thinking it was incredibly boring. The Badlands were awesome though. I had fun doing some sandstone hill climbing at Drumheller and around there.
Many people are amazed at how little of civilization there is once you get north of the 56th parallel. I use that line as a general marker because north of it the land is for the most part turning into muskeg in many places.
I was born in a house three doors up from the shore of Lake Ontario in what was then a sleepy bedroom community half an hour West of Toronto. I miss the weather. Nothing else.
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*I look a bit less shite than when I posted the first one to show how tired and worn out I was lol
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Less shite = a mite bit wee better. Just having fun with Scot vernacular, you ken?
I lived in Nobleton during the 1970's. Went to watch the fights at the Schomberg arena on weekends and sometimes a hockey game would break out. I have some family history in Alliston too. Thanks for digging up some memories
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thank you, I'm a new fan of the band
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Tell me golden ocean love
Hopeless but adored
Sea-slick symboled wants for more
He draws the Raven’s card
Give me forward motion love
Seas of white unfold
Sky’s black servant divinate
Show us what you hold
Window watcher I want ya come on
Oh love are you mine
Those feathered lashes you’re hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don’t you know I think about it all of the time
Diamond islands in your eyes
Blackest in the sun
Ancient watcher divinate
You’re the only one
Window watcher I want ya come on
Oh love are you mine
Those feathered lashes you’re hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don’t you know I think about it all of the time
Window watcher I want ya come on
Oh love are you kind
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest
Do you like what you find
Window watcher I want ya
To feel water
To feel fire
To feel water
Window watcher I want ya come on a
Oh love are you mine
Those feathered lashes you’re hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Window watcher I want ya, come down and be mine
Little watcher come closer I need ya
Oh love are you kind
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest
Do you like what you see
Is it all what you want it, want it to be
Come down storm crow, from your window
Come down storm crow, find your way home
I think you'll like Superheart - here they are, across the pond, live: "Count On Me"...
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"Pray For Rain" - I found this song in the (very hard to find online (fmovies dot ps)) flick "Izzy Gets The F*ck Across Town", a real gem...
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No one gets away from dinner unspotted.
ReRan I grew up on a farm at Leslie and Ravenshoe near Simcoe County; highway 404 ends (exit out to Keswick up the Woodbine) right behind our ol'barn. Snow belt - feeling for you. Had no idea there were so many locals here - memories, ahh, the memories of being snowed in this time of year with a kilometer long driveway and two basement cantinas with what we needed, and work to do to keep it that way.
I always tell newcomers, even though Southern Ontario is the Florida of Canada, "Get a Parka - a real one. It's the only way."
Friend in University, an Inuit academic, made her own sealskin boots and parkas - incredible work. Her husband went hunting in Iqaluit and Alaska yearly, she worked sealskin, fox fur, and rough canvas with down. Worn proudly in everyone's faces, I admired her for it. There were plenty of us asleep in the woke-ness. Keeping balance.
Knopfler and Taylor, The Rumjacks, The Dannas - thank you for the beautiful music.
It's Easter Monday, the snow buried us tonight in the outskirts of Toronto, and I danced my way home with 3cm piled on me by the time 4 klicks were under my feet - sending with appreciation this beautiful day's promise to open hearts and ears.
Somebody else is fairly local around here, @Life. He's in the Kawartha area, not too far. It's nice for me to know that so many Canadians are commenting here. More aware folks than I had thought.
I hope it's spreading...
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I was in a burning abandoned house once, in a room practically fully on fire. It was kind of scary. I had an escape route through the door but I was trying to put out some flames (playing with fire gone wrong) with a little water but after I poured it all the flames kept spreading so after standing there briefly watching the fire and noting there was nothing I could do I ran out of the room and house and fled before emergency services arrived. Whoopsie. At least someone was probably granted a nice insurance payout.
The victims services here were right on the ball, and, seriously, there is nothing we need in the immediate sense. We even have a lead on a house they may be able to rent. This, too, shall pass. Thanks SO much for your concern, and posting the link. That has been a real help.
Back at age 10 or so I once did something similar, running up a country road to the neighbours' to ask for help when my dad and another neighbour were trying to put out a mutual neighbour's garbage fire in a metal barrel that had gotten out of control and was starting to burn the grass. I don't think the neighbour burning trash had much presence of mind.. he basically stood there yelling "Help!" until my dad and I heard and ran over and didn't move his gasoline jug which was unwisely close to the fire. My dad and the neighbours managed to put it out quickly with no harm done though.
Fire is a scary thing, and some people simply freeze and cannot think straight. I cannot watch a house fire without crying, but that may be as a result of all the sad stories my husband has to tell from scenes he has been called to. (Local firefighter). In the last year and a half, there has been a marked increase in house fires. And all the modern materials in homes causes any fire to burn far more quickly than old houses. With more toxic chemicals released.