the local radio station said

>> we can expect up to 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on Thursday, so
>> winter is holding it's own for a while yet.

There is a lot of media coverage of the next anticipated dump of snow

>starting Wednesday tonight and into most of Thursday. Good luck.

Yes.. that was fun. I looked out at the deck this morning and thought
we'd only gotten about 6 inches of new snow, but later when I went out
to clear some of the walking paths on the property it looked like a
lot of the deck snow was blocked by the house or something because we
actually got more like 14 to 16 inches (40 cm) of snow. Since it wasn't
windy when it fell, rather than a drift here and there and less snow on
most of the property I ended up with the full depth of snow everywhere
so when I shovelled about 350 feet of paths today, it was pretty constant
that I was tossing a full shovel every 2 feet or so. It took a lot longer
than usual and was rather tiring to say the least..

I still haven't wandered out to where I park the car to see what sort
of mess I have there and they are calling for more snow tomorrow but,
this far North, we may only see 3 to 6 inches of it. They have pretty
much shut down Toronto for a couple of days.. No schools open and no
mail service and telling everyone to stay home if possible.. it's
always interesting to see what they go through down there when hit with
weather that's fairly common up where we are.. B)
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It's about -17c (+1f) here at the moment. I was just at 'your'
weather web site and they are pretty much calling for some snow
every day for the next week, and the local radio station said
we can expect up to 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on Thursday, so
winter is holding it's own for a while yet.

There is a lot of media coverage of the next anticipated dump of snow starting Wednesday tonight and into most of Thursday. Good luck.

Yet another blast of nearly -30C overnight. The truck struggled a bit harder to start at 10a

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Latitude 45.07° N | Longitude 77.88° W Past 24 Hour Conditions

12 February 2025
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Hello Rob!

** On Friday 14.02.25 - 00:47, Rob Mccart wrote to me:

There is a lot of media coverage of the next anticipated
dump of snow starting Wednesday tonight and into most of
Thursday. Good luck.

Yes.. that was fun. I looked out at the deck this morning [...]
[...] I was tossing a full shovel every 2 feet or so. It
took a lot longer than usual and was rather tiring to say
the least..

That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150m
driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard
bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is
required inorder to navigate those turns.

I still haven't wandered out to where I park the car to
see what sort of mess I have there [...]

Well... how did it look? :D


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That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150m

>driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard
>bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is
>required inorder to navigate those turns.

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,
about 16 inches. Now that there's 2 or 3 feet of snow built up
beside my paths it probably looks odd from a distance, me walking
along with the bottom half+ of my legs totally hidden..

We got about another 4 inches of snow after I did the paths
yesterday and tonight it's still coming down and likely a lot
more than that again so I'll be shoveling again tomorrow..

I still haven't wandered out to where I park the car to
see what sort of mess I have there [...]

Well... how did it look? :D

Probably due to the shoulder high banks on both sides of my car
the snow on the ground was a little less, more like 6 to 8 inches
rather than 16 inches, but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

But the plow guy goes out of his way to try to not leave much
in front of my car. It was just tough this time since there was
so much snow to push around all at once. And I can't complain much
because I don't pay him. The neighbours apparently have to have
their place plowed out for insurance purposes, and that is right
in front of my driveway entrance so I can just park there close
to where he has to plow to. I'm not sure what I'd do if not for
that stroke of luck. I plan to give them a few hundred dollars
for them making it convenient for me, although they didn't ask
and said it wasn't necessary when I talked to them at the start
of winter since me parking there doesn't change their situation
at all. They have a huge parking area plus access to 3 cottages
that gets plowed out plus about 1/2 mile of the road in that the
Municipality doesn't plow and for that he charges $75 per plow,
but sometimes he has to come 2 or 3 times a week so, even though
that's really a fairly low price, it can really add up fast.

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>driveway inorder to get out. The driveway has a couple of hard
>bends too - which means a little bit of extra clearance is
>required inorder to navigate those turns.

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,
about 16 inches. Now that there's 2 or 3 feet of snow built up
beside my paths it probably looks odd from a distance, me walking
along with the bottom half+ of my legs totally hidden..

We got about another 4 inches of snow after I did the paths
yesterday and tonight it's still coming down and likely a lot
more than that again so I'll be shoveling again tomorrow..

Probably due to the shoulder high banks on both sides of my car
the snow on the ground was a little less, more like 6 to 8 inches
rather than 16 inches, but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

But the plow guy goes out of his way to try to not leave much
in front of my car. It was just tough this time since there was
so much snow to push around all at once. And I can't complain much
because I don't pay him. The neighbours apparently have to have
their place plowed out for insurance purposes, and that is right
in front of my driveway entrance so I can just park there close
to where he has to plow to. I'm not sure what I'd do if not for
that stroke of luck. I plan to give them a few hundred dollars
for them making it convenient for me, although they didn't ask
and said it wasn't necessary when I talked to them at the start
of winter since me parking there doesn't change their situation
at all. They have a huge parking area plus access to 3 cottages
that gets plowed out plus about 1/2 mile of the road in that the
Municipality doesn't plow and for that he charges $75 per plow,
but sometimes he has to come 2 or 3 times a week so, even though
that's really a fairly low price, it can really add up fast.

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Your Tagline had me recall a small sign that read: "Lord, Grant Me patience. But I want it RIGHT NOW!"

Sorry about over quoting Your post just to show the Tagline I am referring to. Ed
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. SLMR Rob . Lord give me patience, and give it to me NOW

Your Tagline had me recall a small sign that read: "Lord, Grant Me

>patience. But I want it RIGHT NOW!"

Ha.. and these all reminded me of another quote, maybe a bit too long for
most Taglines..

Dear Lord give me chastity and self-restraint.. But not yet, Oh Lord,
not yet!.. St. Augustine 354-430 a.d.

He was apparently not too good at the whole Chastity thing.. B)

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That morning, it took me about 90min to manually shovel my 150...

Wow, that's a lot of driveway to do by hand. I talk about having
to shovel about 450 feet (136 meters or so) of paths around my
property here but I just do that the width of my snow shovel,

... but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?


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... but the plow left a bit of a bank right in
front of my car that was tougher shoveling than the undisturbed
snow on the ground and on top of the car.

SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?

i meant to add.. that your georgian bay area must have received quite a 2nd dump of snows close to or over 45cm?

i'd say there was an easy 35cm in my central ontario (algonquin) area. but, this time my tractor-neighbour came along on sunday afternoon when the storm was just starting to peter out. he spent an easy 90min working on it though.




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SO.. how did you fare after the 2nd blast over the weekend?

i meant to add.. that your georgian bay area must have received quite

>a 2nd dump of snows close to or over 45cm?

i'd say there was an easy 35cm in my central ontario (algonquin) area. but,

>s time my tractor-neighbour came along on sunday afternoon when the storm was
>st starting to peter out. he spent an easy 90min working on it though.

You lucked out a bit there. I have been working for 1.5 to 2 hours a
day digging my paths around here. I had just finished them after the
first big storm when we got hit with that second storm. Toronto has
been going nuts because they got about 50 cm (20 inches) of snow, it
virtually shut down the city for 3 days and they figure it will take
them 3 weeks to fully recover from it.. Meanwhile it looks like here
the total from the 2 snowfalls is up somewhere around 100 to 110 cm.

My snowplow guy was really good to me too. I think I said I don't
pay him, the neighbours do and I just get the benefit, but when I
cleared off my car and around it today it looks like he actually
came in with his blade lifted and dropped it right at my front
bumper and dragged all of the snow away from it, which was a
really big help.

They said on the news that this is the worst season in 30 years,
although it's hard to say if they meant total snowfall or because
of these bigger snowfalls one after the other.

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