Major winter storm buries northeastern Ontario, prompting highway closures | CBC News
Yes, I live in this general area. Yes, that was quite the dump we got yesterday and overnight. That photo I posted of the side stairs here late last night? The snow between the side railings was almost halfway up them when I got up this morning. The place just to the right side of them (looking down) where snow gets thrown when clearing them is now up to the level of the railing itself.
My brother, coming home from night shift, couldn’t turn into the driveway and instead had to, at oh god o'clock in the morning, dig out the drift in front of the garage door to get at his snowblower, and then snowblow a large enough slot in the driveway to get his truck in off of the street (because at some point the plows will be around… it’ll just be a while since we’re on a minor side street in a small town, and there’s still major highways shut down).
Weather like this is why the couple really big blizzards we had when I was living down in Toronto in the 90s-00s just amused my northern Ontario ass. Yeah, yeah, a big blizzard, so what, that’s normal weather. Pass the snow shovel.
