Thursday the southern and mid Atlantic states has the worst snow in 7 years. That storm went out to sea then swung round to hit southern New England and NYC with a vengence. When I left NYC yesterday morning it was comming down hard and as my route to Waterbury VT should take me along 95 then 91 north and they were expecting up to 14 inches of the crap I chose the slightly longer rout of 97 north and 22 A then down 89 to my delivery, I still hit 6 inches of it and countless vehicles off the road including one very much upside down refuse truck down the embankment. Snow cleared north of Albany and once north of my home town not a trace of white stuff.
My wife always tells me every March not to put away the snow clearing gear because the March snow is always the worse to get… Seems she is right.
We have had a rough week of it up here too Pat. Not real deep but real slippy out on the roads very similar to the UK snow not been to cold no lower than -10.
As usual sassketchwan seem adverse to sending gritters and ploughs out. Luckily we ain’t got the traffic levels of the eastern sea board still a fair few in the ditch though
It was traditional British snow yesterday, wet and good for snowballs. I don’t know if you have ever driven a smooth bore liquid tanker but the liquid constantly rolls around and on ice and snow just trying to turn a corner can be dangerous, the contents just keep going in the direction it was in the first place and the wheels just slide 
it’s not a nice feeling.
I got caught in it on Wednesday on the 81 in Harrisonburg, VA but carried on flat out as I had a decent amount of weight and good tires and knew I’d soon be out of it, although I must have passed 15 trucks that had gone off the road between Toms brook and Roanoke. I tipped Tennessee and reloaded in Alabama so luckily drove up through CT and MA today (saturday) after the storm hit there. I got diesel at the Pilot in Sturbridge, MA and to say that place was a mess was an understatement. Some of the trucks that had obviously being there a while had 2 or 3 feet of snow on their roofs and the road in to the place was covered in several inches of hard packed snow/ice like something those poor souls who live in western Canada have to deal with for 7 months of the year!
Makes me laugh when you hear Brits here laughing at the UK grinding to a halt with a bit of snow and Brits in the UK saying how Canada gets on ok with major snow. I think the highway agency’s here are no better than the British ones and the sassketchwan ones are pathetic it’s just there’s so much less traffic to get stuck. Going along the trans Canada I lost count of the vehicles I saw in the ditch.
kr79:
Makes me laugh when you hear Brits here laughing at the UK grinding to a halt with a bit of snow and Brits in the UK saying how Canada gets on ok with major snow. I think the highway agency’s here are no better than the British ones and the sassketchwan ones are pathetic it’s just there’s so much less traffic to get stuck. Going along the trans Canada I lost count of the vehicles I saw in the ditch.
Last weekend’s snow in alberta,From Lethbridge to Calgary every hotel room was full and community center’s full with snow bound people a NO travel advisory had been sent out,Calgary had 239 snow related accident’s where police had attended etc,The deer foot was like a battle ground,Carry on Canada just cope with it!!!
I dont know how you lot keep the will to live out there. I was last in Alberta in October and almost came a cropper in a snow storm near Red Deer. We dont usually get our first real snow until mid December in NB and by early March we’ve seen the end of it most years. We’ve had so little snow this year that much of February we had green grass everywhere and not a covering of snow. It seems that you have a six month winter out there, at least?
In the mountains winter is definitely a 6 month affair, at home in MB, in the time I’ve been here, the first snow comes in November and starts to stick around towards the end of the month, March is usually when it ends, apart from the odd spring snowstorm, but this year the amount of snow we’ve had has been mental. Average totals are 80cm a year and we’re up in the 120cms already and there’s more to come yet 
newmercman:
In the mountains winter is definitely a 6 month affair, at home in MB, in the time I’ve been here, the first snow comes in November and starts to stick around towards the end of the month, March is usually when it ends, apart from the odd spring snowstorm, but this year the amount of snow we’ve had has been mental. Average totals are 80cm a year and we’re up in the 120cms already and there’s more to come yet
This winter has been zb here too.It’s going on and on and on and it’s colder now in mid March than it was at Christmas and costing a fortune in heating bills. 
The BBC are doing there usual pc global warming zb by saying that it’s still winter when everyone knows it’s supposed to be Spring but saying that temperatures are below normal for Spring wouldn’t fit the bs global warming script so they just extend winter to suit until Spring eventually arrives probably in June when it’ll start raining and won’t stop until Christmas. 
I was going to the Geneva motorshow but I’ve given up on the idea having seen some of the forecasts on the continent which aren’t really much,if any,better than most of Canada at least for tommorrow and while a bit of snow wouldn’t stop the almost 2 t weight of the Jag the disconnected heating/air con system isn’t my idea of fun in more like January/February conditions than March. 
weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e … y=3#mapTop
That’s why they changed it to climate change rather than global warming as the last few winters have been fairly harsh by recent standards in the UK and there hasn’t been a decent summer for a few years either.
kr79:
That’s why they changed it to climate change rather than global warming as the last few winters have been fairly harsh by recent standards in the UK and there hasn’t been a decent summer for a few years either.
It’s ok I’ve packed a hat coat and gloves for my visit to the motherland 