Wanna see snow? I can show you snow...

[fajrdrako]

It has been snowing here a lot lately. Today was the first day after a huge snowfall; but it might be said to be the first day after a series of huge snowfalls that have been going on for four months now.

It's pretty, but we're tired of it.

Might as well show you the prettiness, though.

Pictures all taken during the past week:

Monday: it snowed.

1. Man walks dog. This was taken at the bus stop as I was on my way to work. It was snowing fairly heavily - but falling snow doesn't show up well in photos.




2. The trees by Patterson Creek. Pretty any time of year.




Tuesday: It stopped snowing... for a while.

3. The corner of Bank St. and Third Avenue, where I get off the bus coming home. There was sunlight. A novelty.




4. A house on Third Avenue: this place amused me. A tiny house, hiding behind its own snowbanks.




5. This is a typical Ottawa view of a typical Ottawa activity: A snowy street, with someone shovelling their drive.




Today: after the deluge...

6. They didn't plough my end of Third Avenue today, and the heavy snowfall over the past few days, and the heavy wind, created deep drifts right across the road. The white car you see here belongs to someone who thought he could drive through the last 30 feet or so to Queen Elizabeth Drive. He was wrong. Four people were digging and pushing the car, stuck in its own ruts, when I went out for my walk. When I came back forty minutes later... nothing had changed, and the car hadn't budged an inch.

When I thought to look out the window a few hours later and see if it was still there, it had gone.

Anyway, this photo is taken in the middle of the street - notice the complete absence of anything resembling a street. Or sidewalk. Or the usual parked cars.




7. The only ploughed road in my vicinity was Queen Elizabeth Drive, the major NCC parkway that goes along the west side of the Rideau Canal. Queen Elizabeth Drive is now bordered by snowbanks about 5' high. Beyond them? Snow and more snow.

Not much traffic, unsurprisingly.




Tomorrow things should be back to normal. Winter normal.

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[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Winter normal? Waiting only 20 minutes for a bus, instead of 45? Trudging through three inches of snow, instead of six? Seeing the roads beautifully clear and the sidewalks either unplowed or barricaded by five feet of snow, so I can't actually get to them?

Cynical about car-loving and pedestrian-hating Ottawa? Who, me?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Waiting only 20 minutes for a bus, instead of 45?

Aaah, wouldn't that be nice?

I was lucky with the #6 this morning: it was more or less on time. And I caught it. And I got a seat. Mind you, something fell off the exterior of the bus when we got to Elgin Street and we had to wait while the driver did emergency repairs, but that only took a few minutes.

Trudging through three inches of snow, instead of six?

It's been a while. I don't think I remember what that was like.

Yes, I am bemused by our new sidewalk problem: ploughed or not, how do we get to them? What do you do when you have to walk on the street because there is no way off the street?

...It's a city of labyrinths!

Cynical about car-loving and pedestrian-hating Ottawa? Who, me?

No more than I am.