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I don't know, I guess it's unfair for me to comment because I don't watch many TV shows, but the ones I do watch seem more awesome than that dramatic drivel.

Dramas cannot succeed without good writing. This one has succeeded for seven years, because of that.

If it's "drivel," then it probably wouldn't have lasted too long. The OC's writing turned to crap; that show's fate was deserved. Now THAT was drivel.

The school shooting episodes in the 4th season were simply outstanding.

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It's amazing how tiring it is to walk a few blocks on unshoveled sidewalks. Especially going uphill. It always catches me off guard because I don't expect it to be that much more difficult.

But the bus ride over to the mainland was quite pretty, as were what I could see of the islands in the poor visibility. I LOVE the look of snow on trees.

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man the streets in van are pretty bad. I was driving and the light was turning red. This dudes tries to be a hero and make a left turn before the red and all of a sudden he gets stuck. I laugh as I drive by at 20 km/hr only to get stuck a few meters after. When i look back he laugh at me.

damn you god! couldn't just let me have some glory for a few minutes.

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man the streets in van are pretty bad. I was driving and the light was turning red. This dudes tries to be a hero and make a left turn before the red and all of a sudden he gets stuck. I laugh as I drive by at 20 km/hr only to get stuck a few meters after. When i look back he laugh at me.

damn you god! couldn't just let me have some glory for a few minutes.

LOL.

I was driving earlier today and turned to go onto the Hwy behind a minivan.

Minivan proceeded to spin completely out of control and he wasn't going fast...I had to stop fast...coming to a stop within a foot of his car. He was watching me as I was slowing to the stop lol. Then he waved and went on his way.

Ticks me off that I would have been at fault if I hit him.

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More snow and more snow and more snow...

“Before Christmas we’re just looking at some flurries and that kind of thing so it should be okay. We’re still going to have below normal temperatures,” said Environment Canada meteorologist John McIntyre.

So it’s just lighter variety snow up until Christmas but after that it looks kind of interesting. We should get a couple of storms between Christmas Day and New Year’s. We’ll have to watch that.”

http://www.timescolonist.com/respite+sight...2079/story.html

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man the streets in van are pretty bad. I was driving and the light was turning red. This dudes tries to be a hero and make a left turn before the red and all of a sudden he gets stuck. I laugh as I drive by at 20 km/hr only to get stuck a few meters after. When i look back he laugh at me.

damn you god! couldn't just let me have some glory for a few minutes.

Sounds like something straight outta Married With Children!! :lol:

Really though, I can hardly see anything out my windows now. It looks amazing though down on Hastings up here on the 14th floor. Very Xmas-y!!

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:lol: I love Jack Knox! Some of his columns are fantastic.

Our weather's pretty funny -- at least to the rest of Canada

By Jack Knox, December 21, 2008

It was no good. I couldn't go on. The snow was too deep, the ascent too high, the unrelenting, deafening gale sapping every last ounce of strength. Frostbitten fingers had long lost the ability to grip an ice axe.

As wind-driven ice crystals whipped my cheeks -- rock salt fired from the mountain gods' own shotgun -- I turned to my climbing companion, lifted his ear flap, shouted to be heard: "You go for the summit! I'll make my way down to base camp!"

"What do you mean summit?" the letter carrier replied. "I'm heading for your mailbox. We're only going up your driveway."

Yes, but it's a very steep driveway, or at least one with a slight incline, the kind of slope you never notice until it snows, which it never does in Victoria, except for every winter.

Oh, go ahead, rest of Canada, have a good laugh. Laugh at Vancouver Island brought to its knees by the kind of weather that Calgarians equate with the August long weekend. Laugh at Victoria, where the city's three-stage snowfall response plan consists of 1) demanding Stephen Harper do something, 2) calling out the grief counsellors and 3) pumping Prozac directly into the water supply.

For this, we accept, is the West Coast's role in the great national theatre: To provide a little winter solstice amusement, a bit of darkest-day relief, for our block-heatered and parka-bound compatriots.

We all have a stereotype to play in this production: Albertans are rednecks, Torontonians self-obsessed and Newfies fun-loving. Montrealers are hipper than you in either official language. Saskatchewanianites, or whatever, are salt of the earth.

Us? We're total wimps when it comes to winter, each floating flake sending us ducking and flinching like George Bush on a tour of the Florsheim factory. And lord but it makes the rest of the country feel good to watch us dig the Westfalia out of the ditch.

OK, we get it. Everybody likes to see the princess step in a cow pie. But please, did Mother Nature really have to chuck us headfirst into the barnyard? I mean, this week we've entertained the country with much more than our usual seasonal slapstick.

Not only did it snow, but it snowed and stayed. We normally deal with snow the same way we deal with a jealous spouse on the doorstep: Close the drapes and ignore it, eventually it will go away. Not this time. This time it not only stayed, but called in friends with baseball bats.

And that howling wind! Put the dog out to pee, it phoned half an hour later from Port Renfrew, asked for a ride home. The only good thing about the wind was not having to put up the Christmas lights this year. Just waited for the neighbours' display to blow over and plugged it in.

And cold? It has been -8 C, or -18 with the wind chill -- not that this impresses anyone who lives beyond Hope. The rest of Canada doesn't believe in wind chill. It's like saying a player stands six foot eight with his skates on, when he's really only six foot five.

You want wind? Try the Prairies. I used to live in Regina. Go to the west side of town, you could find Big Mac containers that had blown in from Edmonton. Go to the east, you could smell the stench of rotting principles wafting in from Ottawa. If we drag wind chill into the equation, Reginawanianites, or whatever, will just think we're soft as Charmin.

This is not true. For example, earthquakes don't faze us at all. This being B.C., half the people don't even notice when the house starts shaking, figure it's just the brown acid from Woodstock coming back to haunt them. We had one quake where a ceiling panel fell and busted in two over Judy Lavoie's head, right there in the Times Colonist newsroom. She was like George Chuvalo fighting Muhammad Ali: It buckled her knees, but she wouldn't go down, just kept plugging away on her story. Earthquake shmearthquake. I'd like to see a Regina Leader-Post reporter take a shot like that and still hit deadline. But I digress.

The point is that we all like a good joke, but enough is enough. This was not in the brochure. If Gordon Campbell wants to be re-elected in May, he had better darn well do something about the weather. And if Canada wants a good laugh, it should go back to watching Rick Mercer.

© Copyright © The Victoria Times Colonist

http://www.timescolonist.com/Column+weathe...1935/story.html

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