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.

Comments

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

We haven't been plowed yet, either. Tom got stuck in the snow taking the kids to school this morning. It's terrible and that's only two feet of the white stuff.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Tom got stuck in the snow taking the kids to school this morning

Oh, no! I hope they got themselves out all right. What a pain.

They'd plowed Third Avenue, thank goodness, when I left for work this morning. The walking wasn't bad at all - slippery, but I didn't have to climb snowbanks. And bless their hearts, they plowed a special gap in the snow bank so people waiting for the bus (like me) didn't have to stand in the middle of the road.

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

The plow just went by a couple of minutes ago. They spared two plows. Aren't we lucky?

Quinn was 1/2 late to school apparently but so was one of the school buses and a ton of kids so yeah, it was an ordeal but they all survived. I guess there were 3 or 4 people stuck in the same place so everybody helped everybody out.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sometimes there's a kind of camaraderie when everyone's stuck in the same tough situation, and people are unusually helpful or understanding. It's just as well most of the snow happened on a weekend: it gave most people extra preparation time before going to work today.