Wow, I’m jealous! What a beautiful area he lives in.

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Bet the Country never came to a standstill.

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I’ll send you some photo’s of the snow outside my house. Ooops, forgot I live in Arizona and it’s 80 degrees with blue skies. Enjoy your snow !!

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Thanks Tony for reminding us what real snow looks like. Since it takes just a few flurries to shut our schools for days, I wonder if Canadian kids take the whole winter off. Perhaps you could enlighten us on that too?

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Iv always wanted to live somewhere as nice as canada, by the way, love the insulation in picture 3 and the draft excluder in picture 9.
Any chance you got any rooms to rent.

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Having moved from Shropshire to High River in Alberta 2yrs ago its unreal the weather we have,no rain for weeks on end lots of sunshine & definately lots of snow its been snowing on & off since November & now its February but everything still keeps going schools, airports trains highways,some children back home have never seen snow so its exciting for them

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Silvia,

I don’t envy you over there in Nova Scotia .. my wife flew into New Brunswick last November during that first snowstorm – deicing of the aircraft, snowdrifts etc. We get off lightly in BC compared with you guys – our snow is light and fluffy with rarely any wind to cause the snowdrifts and biting cold. Also your winter lasts longer than ours – good luck.

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Perhaps we ought to send the council officers and highways bosses out to Canada for a winter to learn how to deal with “proper” snow, then when we have a dusting over here, they might not turn into blubbering wrecks.

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Brian,
Clearing the roads is an ongoing battle through winter in this part of the world.

Federal and provincial governments, municipalities, Parks’ board staff, weather forecasters, avalanche experts, the Canadian army and private companies work together to keep the country running on time.

Keeping the country’s main artery (trans Canada) open is just one example:

Park’s personnel assess avalanche conditions by skiing into areas far above the highways (in the case of railways it is the railway company’s alpine specialists) relaying the info to ground staff. If avalanche danger is imminent highways are closed, mobile army units are called in and avalanches are triggered (gun mounts at specific points along the highway). The (man made) avalanches of course cover the roads to a height of 30ft or more and contractors then remove the snow with bulldozers, graders etc., the highway is then opened for a few hours before the next onslaught.

This process goes on all through winter at tremendous cost- but the highway is rarely closed for more than a few hours.

Just a small insight for you of the problems faced by Canadians to keep things going through our tough winters.

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