Snowstorm in Toronto

So it looks like the planet (at least the areas in which the denizens of Gatch are living) is in the midst of a winter storm.

I am a Toronto resident - yes, people. SJ lives in the Centre of the Universe!!

The snow started here early yesterday afternoon. Flash and I got caught driving in it as we had to head up to Pickering to meet friends. Our new truck handled it quite well .. I'm impressed. She's a rear-wheel drive F-150 King Ranch, so we were concerned about fishtailing at what-not, but Flash weighted down the rear axle, and it seems to have worked. Provided we don't hit a stop sign on the middle of a hill, she has no issues at all.

Gosh I love our truck.

Today, gosh darn it, we have to trek out in it to do some grocery shopping - wondering if Flash might postpone that little adventure... We live on a street with a school, so even though it is a back-street, we get plowed fairly swiftly ... Of course then we come out onto Jane Street which is a major road, so it's always clear ... We'll see.

I will need to join Flash on a shovelling exercise fairly shortly. We generally get out a couple of times during the storm, then do clean-up after. It's easier that way. We have a corner block, nand therefore are required to clean the whole corner of snow, so it takes a while.

It was white-out here at about 9 this morning .... Yukky.

Hopefully it will end soon. I don't like snow. I don't like ice.

I'm an aussie. The only place I like isce is in my nice-cold drink ...

Grr....

Will take pics when I do out on snow-duty with Flash and Joshie...

SJ

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Oh, Sosai, I hope there weren't any damages! Here have been lots of accidents because of the verglas on the roads!

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I guess you'll have a great time blurting the snow out of your balcony, then!

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Originally posted by Sosai X quote: Originally posted by amyltrer I guess you'll have a great time blurting the snow out of your balcony, then! I plan on taking pictures of my balcony and the area tomorrow but they won't be a nice as the picture you took. For starters, mine won't have a cutie like yourself in them!

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I've actually experienced warm Christmases too... I lived in Florida for about 5 years, so a "cool" Christmas was anything under 60 degrees. My very first Christmas there it was 75 degrees and humid - yuck!!Wearing a short-sleeve shirt on Christmas just didn't seem right to me... Now that I'm back up north, I don't complain about the cold or the snow (much.... ). I'm glad to have it back and it all seems very normal to me.

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Snorts in absolute amusement as she looks outside her office window

You know ... I don't get it.

Yes the souped-up Honda Civic is a hooning vehicle that looks good, drives fast and impresses the racing lot, but it don't do too well in snow....

I swear the corner - and most of the street - here at work is the worst area in the T.O. On my stroll down the street I must have climbed into about three complete stranger's vehicles to help them get unstuck. I'm a chick, so they think I can't push a car.

Okay. I am an ex-dancer. I might not look it, but these quads are the strongest sets of muscles I've ever seen - and I'm an ex Aussie Rules Football Trainer! If my feet can get good traction, I can push 240 pounds with these fuckers. (I tested it at the gym one day to see how strong they really were - okay, I only did it once, but ...)

But that's okay, I'll drive your pissy little vroom-vroom. I remind them I'm a chick. That I don't hold a full Canadian driver's license, and have NEVER ... I repeat NEVER ... driven in snow.

And, of course, all your shit is on the wrong side of the car too - not used to that.

Seems, though, that an Australian is more geared to snow than Canadians. I'm actually very comfortable for the most part in trekking through the white stuff.

So anyway ... One guy in a car so low to the ground he wouldn't be able to clear a speed bump, figured he could take on our Road (my street at work) before the plows had come in.

Idiot.

Three metres into the street he got stuck.

So I stroll up, ask my friendly guys at the coffee shop to mind my shit and ask for a couple of pieces of cardboard box and stroll on out to help.

Meanwhile I'd already offered my pushing services only to get shot down because - I'm a chick.

So I wander out, smirk, ask for a shovel, dig out his front tires, stick the cardboard under the wheels and suggest that he reverse out into Lawrence Ave and not continue into my road.

He ignores the suggestion. The cardboard works, he starts to move, and drives into my street.

Idiot.

Ten metres later, he's stuck again.

I shrug, look at the Asian guy standing next to me and say : "Fuck him, he's on his own now."

I get a funny look from him, so I point down the street. You can see all sorts of carnage.

"Okay. We have two 18-wheeler trucks stuck up there, three other small vehicles smoking and spinning ... And this asshole thinks he can out-do all of them in a Civic??!!"

"I helped him once, offered advice and he ignored me. Fuck him, I've got to get to work."


So I shrug and shake my head as I walk past him. And continue only to stop and help someone else.

My walk to work from the coffee shop is about 300 metres. It took me twenty minutes to get to the office.

Nuts, absolutely nuts.

I'm not kidding when I say we have the 18-wheelers stuck. I work in a high trucking area. We are a retail corporate office, but we have our distribution centre here. There are trucks all down this street...

Like, God. If a damn semi can't make it through, what makes a Civic driver think he can?

Like, buddy. The snow is 12 inches deep - you have a clearance of about six inches. Basic physics suggests that while the front of your vehicle will ride pretty much atop of the snow, the back end of your vehicle is lower, thereby compacting down and basically "plowing" the snow into the underneath of your car.

Of course I'm a chick - so what do I know?

smiles lazily I know that my F-150 King Ranch Super Crew truck (I love the way that name rolls off the tongue)with her 5.4lt Triton V-8 engine, even though she is a rear-drive truck, when properly weighted over the rear axle, is a fucking BEAST in the snow.

sighhhh

Our area got hit really hard. Flash and I spent about three hours last night digging out with both shovels and snow blowers.

I'm pretty sore today.

Half the office called in sick. Half of those who came in are late - and got stuck down the street (that's what happens when you buy pretty little expensive cars like Lexus/Porsche/BMW)

But lil'ol me ... I made it in 45 minutes early ....

I rock

SJ

ETA: Yes, I was offering my help and digging out cars in corporate office wear, yet these guys who couldn't do their own shit were in jeans and winter jackets - I don't get it.

ETA: A courier just gave me a hard time and said - AND I QUOTE:

"I don't know why you don't go out there and clear the road."

Huh? What?!

Me, personally? The company?

Fuck you, buddy. We did our carpark, our sidewalk, and all entrances. The city is responsible for the road, not us. And I'm not going to walk out onto the road and shovel it just to make your pathetic and miserable ass happy.

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Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.

I hope you guys have managed to di g your way out. I have not-too fond memories of that much snow... yuck...

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Cheers,
Tim

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Cheers,
Tim

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