Figured instead of having all discussion over the place and often more than not in the Road Infrastructure thread, we could use this to chat about this bitter cold snap we're going through right now, and how the fact that even a few inches on Friday night around midnight can so easily cripple this city/metro region.
Seattle appears to have gotten hit pretty good this AM, and even now, it's clouded over pretty good, and recently I've seen a few trace flurries where I am.
Either way, looks like perhaps a decent winter is ahead of us. We shall see.
Last edited by go_leafs_go02; Jan 9, 2011 at 7:02 AM.
well, the forecast for this week calls for some snow turning into rain and mild temperatures.. so probably it'll be a typical vancouver winter from the end of this week until mid-december?
Rainsnow on Thursday, followed by warmer temperatures but a week of rain.
No more big snowfalls though.
It was chilly and windy today coming home from school. I'm wearing my jacket and scarf in front of the PC and I've been here for more than an hour; I'm still cold. Hopefully the heat coming off my PC running Folding@Home makes things warmer
someone i know on facebook who lives in new west just posted that its snowing - so seems to be snowing in new west
nanimo and the island got hit really hard this weekend - i remember when i lived in nanaimo - my first winter there and it snowed and was loads of it and we came over on the ferry for christmas and there was nothing here at all and never snowed at all weird how its so close and the weather can be so different
was watching the early morning seattle news - they got hit really hard - there were abondoned cars on roads, the freeway had loads of accidents, ice covered runways at seatac, schools closed - quite the mess
watching KCPQ - man seattle wow - they are showing streets that are just sheets of ice - there is one street where there are 6 cars piled up down the slope and they haven't moved in 24 hours! they were just left there all smooshed and iced together
its colder down there than here - its -10c in some areas and -15 in some
already started snowing up at SFU. very light flurries, mind you, and I'm hoping that it won't be similar to what happened in seattle (light flurries turning into heavy snow just in time for rush hour).
Highway 1 suuuucked for me today. Gaglardi to Willingdon took much longer than it usually does.. otherwise traffic was OK today. 25 minutes late to class.
Road was relatively clear, but I turned around at McCallum since traffic was reported to start to backup around 264 all the way to Port Mann, and also the road was slowly getting worse and worse.
Open letter to the idiot cyclists trying to prove what die-hards they were and riding their 10-speeds on snow covered streets: Don't drag the rest of us into your death wish. Some days you have to suck it up an take transit.
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