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#121
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
the salt seems worse than the snow...)
I don't have to deal with salt here, but it is gross stuff. In my experience, it's all fine until around -30, then things start to snap. I don't know if they get more brittle, or just that tempers get shorter and physical dexterity lessens.
 
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Originally Posted by umberto_soprano View Post
(p.s. Tablett in German means tray )
Tablet in English can mean a medicine pill.
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I don't mind the dry powdery snow "back East" where I grew up (Toronto). Out here on the Wet Coast, however, it tends to be sloppy slush, or it hardens into treacherous ice ridges. Even worse is the black ice that forms when it rains and then the temperature falls just below freezing. This happens a few times each winter, and the one time I got caught in it (I didn't realize how treacherous it was until I was 25 minutes into my ride) I got to watch all sorts of cars, bikes and pedestrians slip sliding around like drunken monkeys, and I got to play "asphalt starfish" once, too.
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
I don't mind the dry powdery snow "back East" where I grew up (Toronto). Out here on the Wet Coast, however, it tends to be sloppy slush, or it hardens into treacherous ice ridges. Even worse is the black ice that forms when it rains and then the temperature falls just below freezing. This happens a few times each winter, and the one time I got caught in it (I didn't realize how treacherous it was until I was 25 minutes into my ride) I got to watch all sorts of cars, bikes and pedestrians slip sliding around like drunken monkeys, and I got to play "asphalt starfish" once, too.
I wouldn't complain too much, it is FREEZING in Toronto tonight.... Two days of ice doesn't seem half-bad!


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#126
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I wouldn't complain too much, it is FREEZING in Toronto tonight.... Two days of ice doesn't seem half-bad!
Low tonight in Toronto: -9C
Low tonight here in Winnipeg: -23C, -37C with wind chill

Now THAT'S what winter's all about!!!
They don't call us Winterpeg 'fer nuttin'
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#127
Originally Posted by grog View Post
Low tonight in Toronto: -9C
Low tonight here in Winnipeg: -23C, -37C with wind chill

Now THAT'S what winter's all about!!!
They don't call us Winterpeg 'fer nuttin'
Maybe I should follow my own advice and not complain so much!


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#128
Heh, its summer here. I bathed the dogs and let them dry in the sun.
And I don't get snow where I live. Well, unless you count the once every ten year freak snowday.
 
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#129
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I wouldn't complain too much, it is FREEZING in Toronto tonight.... Two days of ice doesn't seem half-bad!
Yes, but did it rain yesterday? Are the streets and sidewalks like skating rinks? Or, is it like I remember it, cold but dry?

The few days of sub-freezing temperatures we get here in Vancouver are often disastrous because of the fact that our temperature bobs back and forth over the freezing line.

If the mercury would just go down and stay down...

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