On Friday night, I called home en route to suggest that we hit the local video and grocery stores before the big storm hit. We grabbed a Dora DVD for the munchkin and a couple "grown up" flicks for the parents (that would be us): American Gangster (good, but wouldn't watch again) and Beowulf (enjoyable, and the animation was amazing). (Aside: I am an idiot. I suggested we hit Blockbuster at 4pm on the Friday before a) a snowstorm and b) March Break.) We grabbed some supplies and bunkered down.
Between Friday evening and Sunday morning, I attempted to have a coronary cleared the snow six times. No, seriously. During those times I also constructed a two-room snow house, complete with open-air atrium, foyer, and a fully enclosed room that my toddler could stand up in.
If you want a different perspective on how the weekend went, you can ask her:
When we weren't braving the elements, we were dressing in our father's clothes and watching Dora:
Sunday saw us make a break for the mall since we were all sick of each otherready to be committed to an institution eager for some time outside the house, where we saw TheEaster Bunny:
* - I wanted to quote you some big-ass snowfall number for the weekend, but according to Environment Canada, the GTA got 15cm (6in) accumulation. My ass that's how much snow I cleared from my driveway. There was more than that Sunday morning for my final cleanup!
(For those non-weekend readers wondering how my father is doing, there is an update below.)
That, my friend, is why I left NJ! Here in the sunny south, we get an inch of snow and the city (quite literally) shuts down. The snow is gone by morning, no shoveling, no nothing.
You guys may have only gotten 15cm's, but you had so much snow from all the other times Old Man Winter bent you over, it really didn't help much, did it?
I heard we had about 45cm's where I am, which probably makes your area and my area even as far as snow accumulation goes.
I'm a transplant to Vancouver, but my family is all in Waterloo... they got pummeled by the storm. My brother's kids can go out the back door (on a crazy carpet) and slide down the 7 foot snow bank all the way to their neighbours' back door. Fun times!
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yeah, I'll second that. WINTER SUCKS! (not always, but RIGHT NOW IT DOES!)...
I'm going to be whining come summer but for now:
Today: Clouds and some sun this morning with more clouds for this afternoon. High 72F. Currently 52F.
:)
I am so ready for spring, I'm about to bust a cap in Old Man Winter's ass.
That, my friend, is why I left NJ! Here in the sunny south, we get an inch of snow and the city (quite literally) shuts down. The snow is gone by morning, no shoveling, no nothing.
You guys may have only gotten 15cm's, but you had so much snow from all the other times Old Man Winter bent you over, it really didn't help much, did it?
I heard we had about 45cm's where I am, which probably makes your area and my area even as far as snow accumulation goes.
I was LOL through this.
Feel free to LOL back at me in a few months when we are similarly suffering stuck indoors.
Today I will take our sunny and 70s (well okay today it rained but yesterday and tomorrow sunny and 70).
Looks like you managed well for the storm. (I stockpile movies on TIVO for such events, thus avoiding any rental stores...yes, a goal of mine.)
I'm a transplant to Vancouver, but my family is all in Waterloo... they got pummeled by the storm. My brother's kids can go out the back door (on a crazy carpet) and slide down the 7 foot snow bank all the way to their neighbours' back door. Fun times!
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