Snow again...

[fajrdrako]

After a mild, rainy week, we woke up this morning to freezing rain. In the time it took me to come to work, it went from freezing rain to hail to rather nice fluffy snow.

Not, you understand, that we need any more snow.

We've got it anyway.

Winter in Ottawa is an ongoing adventure.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sigh - everyone who doesn't have snow wants it. What's with that?

We have too much. Most of us don't want it.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Actually, most (at least two-thirds) of it has *melted* since the dumping we had last month. Right now, I would not mind a small dusting or two ... (but a repeat of that dumping would be sooo ... over-the-top).

And the Canal is still not open. It will take another week or two of deep freeze before we can skate on it safely.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

When I last looked, we had a dusting. But then it was raining at lunchtime, so... no more dusting. We're somewhere between drowning in the flood and making tunnels under the snow.

I try not to think about the canal. It makes me feel guilty because I'm planning to skate.

[halfspokenwords.livejournal.com]

I'm not foolish enough to want loads of snow-- we get a fair amount, most years-- but some flurries wouldn't go amiss!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Flurries. Yes. Flurries are manageable. Pretty. They fall like the gentle rain from heaven to the place beneath. And then melt, as befits well-behaved snow.

But reality being what it is, flurries usually turn into heave snowstorms leaving excessive piles of snow that get in your way and clog everything and stick around for months. Faugh. Flurries have no sense of moderation, that's the problem with them.