Americanuck

Ok that title will probably get me a few more of the pervert searches again but whatever the title fits.

We woke up to another snowfall last night. Yep, you guessed it, six inches worth give or take. The good part was the -10 degree Celsius weather was no more. In fact it warmed up to a balmy 2 degrees today. Wow.

With this warming trend and no new snow in the immediate forcast anyway, meant the start of the big thaw. With all that snow melting at the same time, we’re going to be in for some more flooded roads and overwhelmed storm drains but gosh it will be nice to see the back of this stuff.

The wet in my post title? Not the slush or the clogged storm drains. Nope.

Just after the boys and I finished dinner I heard what sounded like quite a lot of water splashing right outside our window. I thought to myself, wow sounds like a lot of rain and looked out. To my dismay I saw that water was GUSHING out of light fixtures and around the sprinkler head of the overhang directly over the front door. I mean GUSHING. I spent a few seconds trying to figure out if it was maybe just melting snow trying to find a way down and then thought hmmm maybe too much water? Just as I was about to go find the number for our property manager the fire bell goes off.

We gathered with the rest of the folks in our lobby watching a waterfall, me nervously watching the water level rising near our suite. I kept watching the celing to see if it was running inside anywhere but it seemed to all be outside just a few dribbles by the front door. The Strata council people came rushing along and did… SOMETHING to stop the water from running I have no idea what and silenced the alarm.

The group in there starting getting angry again, upset about yet another fire-bell and of course the water. They were also complaining that the contractor who cleared the snow from the pathways came only today after so many days of snow and only cleared two of the three buildings, ours not being one of them. They left a nice big blockage on the path instead, like a wall of snow. You have to make the picture big to really see it though.

After all this I walked out the front door and stood in the big puddle looking at the water level outside our suite and getting dripped on. I was relieved to see that the water receded pretty quickly despite the overly wet ground.

I guess we will find out what caused this, if it still has to do with the sprinkler system or some other type of pipe or something. Gah!! The fun of communal home ownership.

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Yeah Snow is pretty to look at but not so nice to drive in. We got a break from the clouds yesterday and the sun was nice to see but it came with a price REALLY cold temps. It was something like -10 celcius and with the windchill up to -18 celcius.

The news was saying it’s the coldest it’s been in 20 years. I dunno, maybe I’m getting more wussy but I don’t remeber it ever being this cold and I was certainly around 20 years ago.

I’ve been commuting with Tom to work at the ungodly hour of 5 am which gets me to work a good oh 1.5 hours prior to my normal starting time of 7:30 but it’s all good, we’re supposed to get another blast of old man winter tonight with another half a foot of snow and freezing rain.

The commute is supposed to be hellacious tomorrow which means I’m taking my laptop home with me tonight that’s for darn sure. I’m lucky I have the option to work from home when it’s necessary.

Brrrr wish us luck!

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This is the story today, ICE. Lots of it.

School was closed in our district, Sean as SO disappointed! *cough*

Actually, all the boys had a snow day today both Tom and Chris had the day off as well.

Tom was kind enough to drive me to the train this morning (and pick me up, yanno he didn’t abandon me or anything) which spared me a repeat of the white knuckle drive from last night at 10:30pm.

I told him today we are SO moving somewhere in the States where they don’t get snow. Or at the very least not snow of any substance. Somewhere where when they get like a half inch of snow the entire town shuts down.

Yeah, that’s my kind of town.

PS: Even better if it has In-n-Out Burger.  Yeah ok so that narrows the choices down some!

Well, we had a lot of snow. A lot.

Sean and I figured we may as well go out and play in it for a while. I was pretty surprised how deep it ran when you went off the beaten path.

It was still snowing when we left to go on a photo walk, not so much the fluffy snow, more like little bitty sting-ging snow (when it hits your face). I took photos, Sean mostly played in the snow.

Walking back from the local school park Sean decided to try and walk home with a snowball on his head. Not exactly sure why, but whateverrrrr…. he almost made it all the way to the door.

We were both soaked pretty much to the skin when we got home and I’m STILL trying to get warm.

It’s still coming down but in really fine flakes. I have to go pick up the boy tonight at 10 and I so hate driving in this stuff. Should be fun. Not.

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Argh.

It would appear that mother nature thinks we needed to see snow early this year. I’m hoping this means that we won’t get any in December.

Yeah, I’m probably fooling myself but that’s what is keeping me going. We normally have maybe two snowfalls a year in town and dammit I want this to be one of them.

It’s supposed to stick around for a few days. Oh joy.