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Mood: Shocked ]
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Currently: Eating Breakfast ]
So remember when I mentioned a record breaking snow fall?
Well it ain’t over yet. Environment Canada is tracking a system coming up from the Gulf of Mexico that will give us a minimum of 20 cm and upto 50 cm starting tonight.
For those of you that are counting, that’s about half a meter to a meter of snow in a week. For you Imperial users, that’s a foot and a half to half a yard. So far this winter we have had 357 cm – that’s about 12 feet of snow.
The largest snow fall in Ottawa history was in 1970-1971. I was actually gestating in my mommy’s tummy in Winnipeg that winter. Husband Unit was around, but he was very little and doesn’t really remember. We got 444.1 cm of snow that year. That my friends is over 14 and a half feet of snow. Take that Yao Ming!
That winter had people tossing their kids on the roofs and taking snapshots for posterity. They were also using their roofs as the beginning of a killer toboggan run.
This winter is not as bad cause we have had a couple of warm snaps to melt away some of the snow, but the banks outside my house are taller than Husband Unit who is 6’3".
And think of this man. I am pregnant. I can not shovel. So he has been doing this all alone. Wednesday saw him out there before dinner and after dinner, trying to get the way clear. Thursday he was out again at 7:30 am after the plow dumped a windrow at the end of the driveway. (A windrow is that mound of snow the plows leaves. We Canadians have a name for it.)
So this Saturday, as you sleep in, think of Husband unit, shoveling. He really is the best man ever.
(Tomorrow I will rant about my School Board’s inability to clear snow, thereby endangering the lives of students and teachers.)