[BRIEF NOTE] It's cold outside today ...
Dec. 16th, 2007 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonald... and snowy, too. The weather is definitely as promised by (among others) BlogTO ("Put Your Boots on, Toronto"). From The Toronto Star:
Toronto's storm is part of the same storm system that currently dominates much of the northeastern United States. Here in Toronto, the storm has forced the closure of many businesses and public institutions, while the huge volume of falling snow has made road and air traffic decidedly treacherous. With Christmas less than ten days away, it's a near-certainty that this year's Christmas, unlike previous years', will be a white Christmas.
As for my laneway and stairwell, all that I can say is that I'd the foresight this time to bring a shovel indoor before everything came down. Snow shovelling is good cardio, right?
The storm left treacherous driving conditions for an area that stretched from Windsor to Ottawa. The storm’s reach touched as far north as Sudbury, with snowfall warnings in effect for most of the region.
The bad weather was also being blamed by provincial police for the death of a mother near London, Ont., whose vehicle was struck by a snowplow around 12:30 p.m. while the woman stood outside the vehicle, provincial police reported.
The storm is expected to dump between 20 and 30 centimetres of snow on the GTA throughout the day. Areas to the west of the city, from Oakville to Hamilton, may get as much as 50 centimetres as the wind creates lake effect precipitation.
Gusts to 70 km/h will worsen the misery. Today's high of -1°C will dip to -7°C overnight and see the snow taper off, but be mixed with freezing rain and ice pellets, said Environment Canada. The high winds will remain overnight and into tomorrow, although Monday should be a sunny day with flurries.
A fleet of 600 city plows was on the roads and 300 working on sidewalks starting early this morning, said Director of Transportation Services Peter Noehammer.
Toronto's storm is part of the same storm system that currently dominates much of the northeastern United States. Here in Toronto, the storm has forced the closure of many businesses and public institutions, while the huge volume of falling snow has made road and air traffic decidedly treacherous. With Christmas less than ten days away, it's a near-certainty that this year's Christmas, unlike previous years', will be a white Christmas.
As for my laneway and stairwell, all that I can say is that I'd the foresight this time to bring a shovel indoor before everything came down. Snow shovelling is good cardio, right?
