Tuesday
Dec072004
At least we didn't have to call in the army
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at 7:12PM
From The National Post:
TORONTO - A morning snowstorm, the city's first of the year, paralyzed the financial capital of Canada yesterday, snarling traffic, closing roads and causing many commuters to be hours late for work. And all of the havoc was caused by just two centimetres of snow.Jordon is never going to let me hear the end of this. We live in Canada, people. Buy snow tires or something.
Reader Comments (7)
The Salvation Army?
umm, Darryl, I have snows. Unfortunately, they're in the shed. I should not have cancelled that service and tire change last month. 'Course the TCS and ABS kept me out of the ditch.
Listen, People. When, over the course of three hours, there are 178 accidents on our roads, (just in T.O.!!)all because of two lousy centimetres of snow, I think there is definitely something wrong with our collective mentalities. This happens every year. This is Canada, and it snows here occasionally. Goodness knows what it would be like on our streets if this was Buffalo, or someplace where it really snows! Learn to drive, and slow down, for your own sakes, if not those around you. Sorry for the tone. Darryl hit a nerve or something.
DD ... it was probably MY fault. I was in for a day of meetings on Monday. At 11 pm Sunday I made the Bramalea City Centre /Pearson trip in 11 minutes. Monday morning it took 1 hr and 20 minutes. Same trip. Boy was I glad to get home to balmy Victoria after that. So, if it actually snows here this year I will be double my annual average ... 2. And that is one too many for a former Ontario guy ( wonder what Mike T is thinking as he reads this? ).
What Don is failing to mention is that out here in BC it only takes ONE cm to shut the whole place down. You'd think that in a province where it rains most of the time people would be good drivers. You'd be wrong. Peace from another former Ontario guy!
you didn't mention the power outages because of the high winds?
If, in B.C., one only experiences snow occasionally - say once or twice a year, - it is understandable if people are not used to driving in the stuff and hence have problems. As ex-Ontarians, Mike and Don, you are aware that Toronto usually experiences several snowfalls and also freezing rain every year. There are, after all, only two seasons here in T.O., Construction and Winter, and both have an effect on our driving. You would think that we would be used to it by now, or at least remember the basic rules of driving in snow: SLOW DOWN, give yourself extra time to get where you are going, and do not make sudden, drastic adjustments to speed or direction. Oh, no. We figure we can still get from Sarberia to Downtown in half an hour, and continually try. To quote Bugs Bunny: "What a bunch of Maroons!"