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"Environment Canada is calling for total snowfall amounts of 40 to 60 cm locally by the time this winter storm passes and, like every other official agency, warns that "travel is expected to be very difficult or impossible due to near-zero visibility."

Like TWO FEET of snow!

I am not in town right now and I was tempted to chime in with the standard Toronto drivers are shit, snow tires, Toronto cut snowplowing budget blah blah blah.. but TWO FEET is a fuck of a lot of snow!
 
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realthing69

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I even saw a snow plow (the ones with the plow under the driver and looks like it belongs on a farm) get stuck for about 20 seconds spinning it's wheels.
 
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Robert Mugabe

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Well. You've got to hand it to everybody who in spite of tv, radio and internet, went outside, brushed off their windows, and still got in their cars and decided to drive.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
I survived the Montreal winter of 1970/71. This storm is minor by comparison.


383.3 cm

Most snow in one winter, in 1970-71. That includes 43 cm that fell in one day during the March 1971 “storm of the century” that killed 17 Montrealers .

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I also remember that storm. People driving skidoos on the streets as it was the only way to really get around.

Also Dec 27, 2012 - Mtl got 45.7 kms that day. And I happened to be there that week.

Some interesting snow stats.
https://www.currentresults.com/Year...Montreal/extreme-annual-montreal-snowfall.php
https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/ON/Toronto/extreme-annual-toronto-snowfall.php
 
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Ponderling

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January 28 1977 was a doozie of a snow storm I recall as well.

I was growing up, and for the first time I could recall, my dad came home from work early, because his office closed early and we only shoveled enough drive way to get the car off of the road.

The next morning he was on the phone a bunch and did not get in to the factory he managed until noon to oversee getting the shipping and receiving facilities and open yard areas cleared. This was in Orillia, where we were used to dealing with a snowy winter.

The radio and tv were talking about Fort Erie and Buffalo getting folks dug out. There is a good book/web site about it called White Death.

Here today we got about 50cm. I shoveled for about 90 minutes and did not get the areas usually kept clear of snow finished.
My kids wanting to get the car out finished the work left to the curb, in a half-assed manner, as only young adults can.
 
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SchlongConery said:
"Environment Canada is calling for total snowfall amounts of 40 to 60 cm locally by the time this winter storm passes and, like every other official agency, warns that "travel is expected to be very difficult or impossible due to near-zero visibility."
Like TWO FEET of snow!
I am not in town right now and I was tempted to chime in with the standard Toronto drivers are shit, snow tires, Toronto cut snowplowing budget blah blah blah.. but TWO FEET is a fuck of a lot of snow!
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There is more fucking snow outside than I have ever fucking seen in my fucking life!

There may be one or two past super-storms in the past 2 or 3 decades that are in the same league for Toronto.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
I survived the Montreal winter of 1970/71. This storm is minor by comparison.


383.3 cm

Most snow in one winter, in 1970-71. That includes 43 cm that fell in one day during the March 1971 “storm of the century” that killed 17 Montrealers .

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Wow, that pic reminds me of my street in Ottawa 1970/71. Lived in the west end near the Civic Hospital and all the streets in the area had been reduced to one lane. Seemed like all my brother and myself did that winter was shovel snow. Car looks familiar too. 64 Pontiac??? That"s what we had.
 
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onomatopoeia said:
You can chew gum in online class. Back in the day, kids caught chewing gum in class had to stick the gum onto the end of their nose until the bell rang.
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Part of the fun going to school was ganging up on an emotionally frail physics teacher and bringing him to tears. You can’t do that on-line.
 
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The City just finished firing hundrends more for not taking the needles they are pushing. Maybe some of those guys could have helped out.
 
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