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Dec. 21st, 2010 08:02 amThe 6:00 a.m. news on the radio said that one of the bridges was closed due to an accident overnight. Hmmm... There's two bridges that cross Halifax Harbour and if one of them has a problem, it's usually traffic hell so i thought it would be wise to take the earlier bus. Right. You know what happened of course. Though there were a lot of cars, the bus just sailed through and over the bridge. I got to work early so enjoyed a nice, quiet breakfast.
I'm amazed at how much snow is hitting Europe and the UK! On one hand, it's amusing to see how badly the authorities deal with it, busses not running, trains suspended... which baffles me, really. The amount of snow isn't blizzard proportions though it's a healthy snowfall but certainly not enough to stop a train in Canada. Our busses will go out on the roads in most conditions though freezing rain/ice storm will keep them off or blizzards with white out conditions too. But for the most part, our city busses are pretty reliable. Still, that brings me to the other hand..I do realize that most of Western Europe doesn't get winter weather in quantities and doesn't have the road equipment to deal with it.
We're fairly lucky where i live, on the Atlantic coast. We get more rain than snow or if it snows, it will rain within a week. Oh sure sometimes we get really snowy winters where the snow sticks and there's heaps of it. You put your snow boots, hat and mittens on and get on with things. Take yesterday.... It was initially forecast for 5 to 10 cm of snow which would turn to rain and then we'd get a huge rain and wind storm over night. Not. One. Flake. Not that i saw, anyway though it was cold enough for it. We did get the rain and wind. People never seem to be ready for a large storm of either rain or snow because 9 times out of 10 the doom and gloom forecasts turn to nothing much at all. That's the advantage of living by the sea where a storm can blow off course very easily. It's the forecast of a 30 or 40% chance of some snow which will turn into a big storm because it can blow straight onto the land instead of blowing away just as easily. Inland and away from the water, and up on Cape Breton Island... they get more snow than we do right on the water.
I'm amazed at how much snow is hitting Europe and the UK! On one hand, it's amusing to see how badly the authorities deal with it, busses not running, trains suspended... which baffles me, really. The amount of snow isn't blizzard proportions though it's a healthy snowfall but certainly not enough to stop a train in Canada. Our busses will go out on the roads in most conditions though freezing rain/ice storm will keep them off or blizzards with white out conditions too. But for the most part, our city busses are pretty reliable. Still, that brings me to the other hand..I do realize that most of Western Europe doesn't get winter weather in quantities and doesn't have the road equipment to deal with it.
We're fairly lucky where i live, on the Atlantic coast. We get more rain than snow or if it snows, it will rain within a week. Oh sure sometimes we get really snowy winters where the snow sticks and there's heaps of it. You put your snow boots, hat and mittens on and get on with things. Take yesterday.... It was initially forecast for 5 to 10 cm of snow which would turn to rain and then we'd get a huge rain and wind storm over night. Not. One. Flake. Not that i saw, anyway though it was cold enough for it. We did get the rain and wind. People never seem to be ready for a large storm of either rain or snow because 9 times out of 10 the doom and gloom forecasts turn to nothing much at all. That's the advantage of living by the sea where a storm can blow off course very easily. It's the forecast of a 30 or 40% chance of some snow which will turn into a big storm because it can blow straight onto the land instead of blowing away just as easily. Inland and away from the water, and up on Cape Breton Island... they get more snow than we do right on the water.
