We had quite the storm over here in Canada over the last 24hrs. Well not all of Canada we are kinda huge, but in Ontario anyways. I know the Southern part got hit a bit too and made a big deal about it (they always do, but we have it much worse up here in the North!) I'm not sure what they think of us down there, but we secretly don't like them up here...lol.

This is what my poor car looked like when I got out from work yesterday. The worst was the blowing wind a freezing weather. It was about -20 C in the morning, and the snow just keep blowing down your collar and face when you tried to sweep it off. We probably had about 2-3" or 5-10cm, but the worse part was the blowing, it made it almost impossible to clear.

Here's my foot prints to the house this morning when I got home. I went out to clear some snow and do some shovelling and even though it wasn't still falling from the sky the wind made it look like this after only 1 hr. They were already starting to get filled in with the wind.

When I went back out to work tonight a took this photo of the same trail. After 10 hrs, it was pretty much totally obliterated with just the wind.

The wind is almost much worse then just the snow falling and that's why blizzard situations can be way worse, it's so much harder to control the volume of snow. There's times when it's blowing directly into someones house and the drifts in front of the door are like mountains. My wife took the kids to visit and friend and that's what there place was like, my son was quite excited to tell about the huge snow pile he had to climb over.

This also makes the roads quite treacherous to drive on, this is one of the main streets in Sudbury just in front of the hospital and despite the plows running all day trying to clear the roads it still looked like this.

Lastly I wanted to show off a snowbank on one of the parking lots I passed. This is likely something we just take for granted around here that would be pretty impressive to someone without alot of snow. They piles get so massive is most parking lots throughout the winter, then eventually they need to get trucked away. They have heavy equipment and dump trucks come just to haul the snow away from these piles.

In a really bad winter there are even piles like this at the end of everyone driveway to get onto the streets.

PS. I'm really excited about winter, it's really my favorite time of the year, so hope your ready for a few more snow and winter blogs over the next few months.