I never felt I would be in a real Canadian winter until it started to snow and that happened yesterday! It came down good and hard and from the time it started around 2 p.m. until I last looked out the window around 11:30 p.m. the country was covered. Canadians say it is nothing and from past experience I believe it, but had this fallen, like this back in Norn Iron, there would have been chaos.

I left work at about 4:30 p.m. and it was beginning to lie. By the time I got off the bus almost an hour and a half later thanks to traffic slow down as a result of the ploughs not having been out to this point, the
footpaths were covered and only tire tracks paved a way for cars. I decided not to wait on the final bus but walked the 1 mile leg instead. To be honest it wasn’t that cold, just a little slippery but I managed to stay on my feet, much to the disappointment of the motorists watching me from the slow moving traffic.

It is expected to snow the next few days but warm up again over the winter so this is probably not the snow we can expect to last for the next two to three months.

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