Post by mickeyobe on Dec 19, 2007 23:33:56 GMT -5
This past Saturday and Sunday the eastern parts of Canada and the USA were subjected to an immense blizzard.
Sunday, which should have been one of the busiest shopping days of the year, most of the plazas and shopping centres and streets were virtually deserted.
My part of Toronto received 18" of snow breaking a record of 12" that was set in 1944. Some parts of eastern North America got much more.
The city had 600 snow ploughs clearing the roads and 300 smaller ploughs doing the sidewalks. There were 200 trucks out sanding and salting the roads.
The crews worked around the clock, some of them for 48 hours.
They did a superb job.
Toronto's extensive systems of ravines were things of beauty.
This log cabin was sheltered to the leeward of a high, steep hill and received relatively little snow.
Mickey
Sunday, which should have been one of the busiest shopping days of the year, most of the plazas and shopping centres and streets were virtually deserted.
My part of Toronto received 18" of snow breaking a record of 12" that was set in 1944. Some parts of eastern North America got much more.
The city had 600 snow ploughs clearing the roads and 300 smaller ploughs doing the sidewalks. There were 200 trucks out sanding and salting the roads.
The crews worked around the clock, some of them for 48 hours.
They did a superb job.
Toronto's extensive systems of ravines were things of beauty.
This log cabin was sheltered to the leeward of a high, steep hill and received relatively little snow.
Mickey
