Great White North - Page 2

cliff · #31 17-12-07, 20:08

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Originally posted by Daniel Treasure
P.S. What is snow?

The nearest equivilent for us is the froth on top of a glass of beer with the only difference being the beer under the froth tastes better then the soil under the snow!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #32 17-12-07, 20:22

This was taken two years ago in January. This is a very rare sight at times for us, sometimes once every three years. The New Forest is behind the hedge. Southampton is a few miles to the left. End of the world stuff!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #33 17-12-07, 20:24

Our garden is being covered by horrible white stuff! Our poor car (British-built Honda Civic to the right) is getting covered! What are we going to do?

cliff · #34 17-12-07, 20:32

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Our garden is being covered by horrible white stuff! Our poor car (British-built Honda Civic to the right) is getting covered! What are we going to do?

I notice your neighbors still have outhouses at the bottom of the garden so it must be a cold trip for them

....Oh

that's right you guys have got more modern so they must be garden sheds

PS> those 3 gardens are not much bigger then the back garden for my unit!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #35 17-12-07, 20:40

Yes, to the right they have chickens in them thar sheds which they allow out. I wonder if your house (and you can see the size..we rent by the way...) is worth $650,000 + Aussie money? Behind the houses are $800,000+?

cliff · #36 17-12-07, 22:43

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Yes, to the right they have chickens in them thar sheds which they allow out. I wonder if your house (and you can see the size..we rent by the way...) is worth $650,000 + Aussie money? Behind the houses are $800,000+?

Nope I ain't stupid enough to pay that much for a few square inches of dirt when for that much up here I could have 5 acres plus a house like that and a shed full of restored CMP's!

Max Hedges · #37 17-12-07, 23:34

Emma went to the snow in the mountains last winter to get wet and cold

Max Hedges · #38 17-12-07, 23:38

this is what they got up to
thats Mark commin down the hill

Bruce MacMillan · #39 18-12-07, 02:37

Snow??? Mountains??? in Australia???
You mean those Tourism Australia people have been lying to us on the tv commercials that are currently running in Canada? All they show are buxom babes in bikinis on the beach at Surfers Paradise.

Mind you people can get the wrong idea about winter in Canada. We don't all have to shovel the white stuff. I actually had to dust some white stuff off my flowers the other day.
Tis true that Karmen gets a bit of white fluff (snow) now and then but her part of the province thinks it's in Alberta anyway.

Snowtractor · #40 18-12-07, 03:29

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Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan
I actually had to dust some white stuff off my flowers the other day.
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YOu may want to start running, 'cause I really need the money from CRIME STOPPERS for christmas presents. The raid should start in...three...two...one...

Sean

Jon Skagfeld · #41 18-12-07, 06:54

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Originally posted by Max Hedges
Emma went to the snow in the mountains last winter to get wet and cold

Hey...that's my backyard!

Great thread...good to share international opinions about ones wx.

Grant Bowker · #42 24-12-07, 16:19

One week ago it was 30 cm of snow, followed by -15 degrees, in between it snowed some more. Yesterday it rained about 30 mm so we could have had another foot of snow. Instead, the snow on the ground packed down quite a bit and many people were busy clearing some of the weight off their roofs. So far this winter we have already had more snow than for all of last winter. We spent quite a bit of the day yesterday clearing snow around Bob's barn. Not because we had to move the snow to get in, but once it refroze (happened overnight) it would have made any more snow removal a major job.

#43 24-12-07, 16:57

Christmas Greetings From Within Ma Yappy

English: Merry Christmas
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
French: Joyeux Noel
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol

PS: I sahll be back to reply to some comments I just read in this thread ...

#44 24-12-07, 17:23

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Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan
Mind you people can get the wrong idea about winter in Canada. We don't all have to shovel the white stuff. I actually had to dust some white stuff off my flowers the other day.
Tis true that Karmen gets a bit of white fluff (snow) now and then but her part of the province thinks it's in Alberta anyway.

No one shovelling here ... this is the alley I walk to go to grocery shop and do errands downtown (a lot less snow than a few days ago, It was very mild and melted lots down, puddles everywhere, now frozen again though ... taken about 9:00 a.m. this morning, still dark-ish ... but at 9:20, now ,,, sun shining but am not going out to take more pics

maybe later ...

Will post the sidewalk in a few, never shovelled either

send plows please ...

Yes, strange to be on Endmonton, Alberta time zone when in BC

#45 24-12-07, 17:30

Winter sidewalk walk ... fun ...

#46 24-12-07, 17:35

A view in the other direction towards Mountains between us and Alberta

Hanno Spoelstra · #47 25-12-07, 08:59

I freezed for a couple of days in Holland, everything was covered in a frosty layer. Even the water froze over, so we could skate for a single day.

This is in front of my house (daughter on the right), taken on 22 December. Two days later everything was green again.

#48 25-12-07, 10:01

I love when everything all frosted like that ... beautiful. And great you caught a photo Hanno ... sometimes these sights do pass so fast sometimes and thanks a lot for showing us

#49 25-12-07, 10:05

PS: Just had a wish about photos people post of scenery and weathers around their locations and wished there was an album or something to view just the posted photos sometimes. The re are sure some incredible shots that I love to look at again and again.

Grant Bowker · #50 25-12-07, 12:51

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer again. (On the ther hand, sorry to those in the southern....)

David_Hayward (RIP) · #51 25-12-07, 13:42

We have rain here! It's about 8 C at least but feels warmer. I cannot recall rain on Xmas Day ever but there you are. I do however recall the Terrible Winter of 1962-3, when we had SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW over Christmas, and apparently the temp stayed below 0 until March every day!

#52 27-12-07, 14:23

Currently -17 celcius with 92% humidity here ,,, and about a couple-ish hours over in Nelson it's only -3.

Glad I'm warm and toasty in my apartment but must go out later. I hope it warms up a bit by then

Ma

Jeroen Sleijpen · #53 17-01-08, 18:07

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
Mack??

Yes sir!!!
A Mack NM 6x6 used a lot in England and Scotland in this config.

Jeroen Sleijpen · #54 17-01-08, 18:09

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Originally posted by David_Hayward
English again

Mack NM 6x6 again