It started Sunday, and was quite heavy at times. Going to work wasn't too bad, but it had only gotten started at that point. By 7pm Sunday night, when my shift was over and I had to drive home again, it was a different story!
Driving home was a little nerve-wracking. The plows had hardly done anything yet, so the snow was thick on the road. The posted speed limit is 100 kmh, but my top speed was 60. Didn't dare go any faster. Luckily, the plows hadn't blocked off Lilley Road to badly, there was one lane's worth relatively open for me to get down my road and then into the driveway. When I got home I called Sylvia to let her know I was home safe (she worked the same schedule as myself on Sunday), only to find that even though she lived just a few blocks from work, she had to drive back to the store, park there, and WALK home. The snow plows had plowed the highway (#24) and blocked her street off with a waist high mound of the stuff!
Today I worked at the Star/Journal, and on my way to work I took the following pictures:
My car is the one half under the trees. You can see it has some more snow on it that fell during the night. Wim's car is the one buried. The path just to the left of Wim's car is the path he just shoveled for me to get out to the road by (in order to get to the Star/Journal office).
There's Wim, digging away. (He is such a nice brother!)
That's my left hand - held out at about waist height - even with the top of the berm of snow that the snow plow left all around the block where the office is... it was tricky getting in!
Armour Mountain... it looks a little hazy because it was still snowing as I was taking these pictures.
The big tree in the middle is hiding most of our house... you can just see it poking out on the right of the tree.
Tomorrow, Wim and Antoon have both promised to help make sure I can get out of the driveway in time to get to work. My shift starts at 8:30am, so, given the road conditions, I need to allow for twice the usual time to get to work. So instead of leaving just after 8am (it normally takes 20 minutes), I want to leave about 7:30am. (It's supposed to stop snowing some time tomorrow.) Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I'll go.........
Drive safely, everyone!
