I got to shovel around the church today. It was kind of fun actually, but I don't need to do it all the time. It's perfect snowball snow, too bad my son isn't old enough to throw one at me. :)
Considering some people I've talked to here, I thought I might take and opportunity to make a weather comment. Seeing as how I have lived in or travelled fairly extensively in every province west of Quebec, I can say from what I've seen, that snow is snow. Every place has the same snow, it just depends on what the conditions are like when the snow falls. It never gets cold enough in Vancouver for anything but slushy snow, but that stuff happens everywhere else too. I think West Coast people try to trump up their poor weather conditions to seem worse than they are. Like, "it's just as cold here because it's damp". Um, plus 5 is never just as cold as -33, people just aren't used to it here and usually don't dress appropriately. And the snow isn't worse because it's slush. Saskatoon was a million times slipperier when I drove there this week, because it was frozen solid.
No West Coast person should ever feel inferior for not having bad weather like other parts of Canada. They should feel blessed and appreciate the fact that things are usually so nice here. I know I do...
2 comments:
hey, i'll be the first to admit that it's warmer here than any of the prairies. BUT, i do think that the cold is a different kind of cold. the prairies have a dry cold (the kind that freezes the hairs of your nose) and the coast has a wet cold that just gets you to your bones. and the climate also has a different kind of snow. it's always wet snow here. plus, we're inexperienced drivers. so i think you're right, but also saying that the climate makes the snow and cold a different kind from the coast to the prairies. agreed? :)
Hee hee. I'm planning about blogging about snow today too and this has really got me in the mood.
I can't comment as an expert on the special kind of Vancouver snow because the times that I have been there I haven't experienced the snow. But I have experienced snow all across the praries, to the east coast and driven across it all. I've even experienced European snow. Sure it comes in different quantities, dampnessess and granularities, but it's all still snow.
Oh and having lived in Minneapolis where the cold is very dry and Thunder Bay which is also a damp kind of cold — I prefered the damp cold. Nothing like the feel of freeze-dried skin. Now when it comes to heat and damp gimme dry heat please.
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