We spent Christ\u00admas and a few days either side in Sakat\u00adchewan, land of \u201127 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driv\u00ading along High\u00adway 1 you could see the stubble of plants stick\u00ading out of the slim white cov\u00ader\u00ading, giv\u00ading the hori\u00adzon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow in sheltered places, dry and feath\u00adery, the sort of snow that does\u00adn\u2019t get you wet when you fall in it as it brushes off so easily.<\/p>\n
Com\u00ading home to Van\u00adcouver it was a dif\u00adfer\u00adent story. We missed out on being there for the almost-record snow\u00adfalls (I gath\u00ader we only need anoth\u00ader 2 cm to beat the record set in 1964), but enough remained on the ground to require lots of snow-shov\u00adel\u00adling. Maybe next year I\u2019ll break down and get a real snow shovel with bet\u00adter ergo\u00adnom\u00adics; my back muscles are groan\u00ading using our emer\u00adgency fold\u00ading one with its too-short handle. Snow at tem\u00adper\u00adat\u00adures around zero C is wet and sticky, not at all feath\u00adery, and it does\u00adn\u2019t brush off eas\u00adily. In places the snow has the choppy look of whipped egg whites that have star\u00adted to break down, in oth\u00aders like smooth piles of icing sug\u00adar, 60 cm (2 feet) or more thick. On the roads it\u2019s a dirty grey col\u00adour, piled high in spots, inter\u00adspersed with pock\u00adets of water that can\u00ad\u2019t make it to the storm drain and pock\u00adets of ice where the sun can\u00ad\u2019t reach. <\/p>\n
It was the first coast to coast white Christ\u00admas since 1971, and we\u2019re in the middle of anoth\u00ader snow\u00adfall warn\u00ading with snow fore\u00adcast for the next three days (which should eas\u00adily break that record). I\u2019m glad I work from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We spent Christ\u00admas and a few days either side in Sakat\u00adchewan, land of \u201127 C days and even colder nights. But, as it turns out, little snow. Driv\u00ading along High\u00adway 1 you could see the stubble of plants stick\u00ading out of the slim white cov\u00ader\u00ading, giv\u00ading the hori\u00adzon a green-brown tinge. There was more snow \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cSnow and snow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[67,113],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-vancouver","tag-snow","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}