Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Now, THIS is Snow!!



I keep reading on other blogs south of the border about the tough winter you guys are having. But this is Canda, and we just take it all in stride, but then we're used to it.



The Canadian military is in charge of shooting down the avalanches in the National Parks, and you can see they use real cannons. Real toys for real boys.


Just another day in the life of a Canadian winter.


Anyone for snowmobiling?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

BRRRR...
that is just a tad bit too wintery for me..
I really am enjoying the mild winter we are having here in NJ...but I am sure that Mother Nature will let us have it eventually :(

P.S.
It does look beautiful though...reminds me of my time in Montana!

Anonymous said...

meh, you can have it! hee hee hee!

Anonymous said...

you know, I actually miss driving snowplow- all those cold winter days when it was just me, my truck, the heavy snow falling, oh yeah and the guy in the ditch,the #@%^&# trying to pass me on the right,the tailgater giving me thee finger as he passes with his windsheild sanded-oh! wait! I don't do that anymore;I'm okay now!

Netmilsmom said...

Everything here North of Detroit is covered with ice and with the sun shining on it, it is past beautiful.

I'm glad I homeschool!
We get to just look at it.

Michael Leggett said...

In NYC, one could say that I'm experiencing a Novus Ordo Winter:

It's way out of whack, with some temps at 20C;

Today is 3C.

Anonymous said...

Michael...
I am over the river in Jersey...
Isnt the weather great...well except for today!

Michael Leggett said...

Well, Karin, I usually don't expect the weather to be so warm & moist that I feel like I have a continuous chest cold:

I do appreciate a dry kind of cold weather.

stephen said...

Good ol Canada snow snow snow except here in Niagara It took till Jan.15 to get winter...Global Warming? I think so..

Anonymous said...

Micahel-
AHHH..dry cold weather..AHHH!
The feeling of a chest cold may have something to do with the "dirty" air your inhaling over on that side of the river and not the weather :)
(joking!)

Michael Leggett said...

Karin?

Wherever you are in NJ, may the air be crisp, dry & cold, as well as fresh;

Pax Vobiscum;

Michael

Jeffrey Smith said...

I've been weather watching in Pennsylvania and Ohio for almost half a century. Haven't seen anything approaching a real winter since 1978. But, oh, my, people whine to no end about what they think are severe winters.

paramedicgirl said...

You Americans and your mild winters! Makes me want to move south!