Remember being snowed in?

Pinky said:
We couldn't take off our winter duds until we got the fire going in the stove. This was in rural Alberta. Our
"house" was an un-insulated chicken house separated into 3 rooms. There were no snow plows back then.
Dad used to keep the shovel inside the house, as the heavy snowfall blocked the front door, several feet high.
Using the outhouse was a fast endeavour.
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MY relatives lived in Toronto .. they had a bungalow / chalet style houses next door to each other. I remember back in the 60's them sending photos of the snow which had reached the eaves of their houses... and. them trying to shovel their way out..
 
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hollydolly said:
MY relatives lived in Toronto .. they had a bungalow / chalet style houses next door to each other. I remember back in the 60's them sending photos of the snow which had reached the eves of their houses... and. them trying to shovel their way out..
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There was much heavier snowfall back in the 60's, Hols .. getting to the subway was a challenge back then.
With global warming, we don't seem to get as much snow in T.O.

OTOH, Vancouver is getting more challenging winters now, than what I grew up with.
 

Pinky said:
There was much heavier snowfall back in the 60's, Hols .. getting to the subway was a challenge back then.
With global warming, we don't seem to get as much snow in T.O.

OTOH, Vancouver is getting more challenging winters now, than what I grew up with.
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...Unlike my little bit of knowledge of the USA, Pinks..I'm ashamed to say I don't know much about the geographical layout of Canada... so how far apart are Ontario and BC... ? or Toronto and Vancouver
 
If the school bus couldn't make it through the snow, it was a no-go. School bus usually followed in the wake of the city snowplow. So, if I didn't go to school, mom and dad didn't go to work either. We lived on the very outskirts of town and were the last to get city services. We would occupy our idle time with board games and fun things we could come up with to pass the time.

Later in life while in the Air Force, snow days were unheard of. Being young airmen, we had no personal transportation. The shuttle bus was, of course, snowed in. This in Denver, Colorado. We'd wrap our boots in newspaper as extra insulation against the cold and trudge across base hard against the wind from quarters to duty.

How I miss those snow days now.
 
Pinky said:
Toronto to Vancouver .. 3,000 miles or approximately 4,800 kms, Hols.
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thanks muchly Pinks.. so with your info, I had a proper look at a Canadian Map.. and can see precisely where they both are.. BC being in the South western region.. and presumably the wettest area like the SW of the uk... and Toronto is the South East ?... ..I'm really surprised to see how close..( on a map) that parts of the USA is to Canada.. I hadn't realised that there was so much of it on the Canadian borders..

Now I see just how huge Canada is. I wish I was younger and could go travelling all through it... :D
 
I can remember snow day closings as a child, and they were economic opportunities! Grab your snow shovel, hit the streets, and you might make a few dollars shoveling drives and sidewalks. Have fun finding kids seeking to shovel snow for bucks these days, however...they’re given money, and are too busy texting on their cell phones….
 
Most schools here switch to a virtual day when weather becomes a problem. Schools no longer cancel.
 
Dad used to work for the town when I was in elementary school. When there was no way for us country kids to make it to school, he would wake me up at 3:00 in the morning and ask me if I wanted to go with him to plow snow. At that time, the town had a road grader. That felt like being on top of the world. I loved it.
 
mrstime said:
Growing up in So. California, I was deprived when it came to snow! That was cured when we came to Canada.
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My story is similar. All my early memories are of coastside San Diego so no snow days for me until my navy father was stationed in Maryland. I think we always had white xmases the three years we were there. But strangely enough we missed out on a rare San Diego snow storm in December of the year we left: “On Dec. 13, 1967, a powerful storm brought snow to downtown San Diego for the first time since 1949”, the headlines read.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/story/2022-12-13/from-the-archives-snow-fell-in-san-diego-55-years-ago#:~:text=On Dec.,at elevations below 1,000 feet.
 
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