Bill- I have cousins in Vancouver. My aunt married a Canadian who was here during the war- he was in the air force. She went back with him and lived there the rest of her life. I went there on my honeymoon - 20 years ago. It's a beautiful country.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Bill - I'm from Cornwall in the UK, but holiday in BC, and just love Vancouver - one of the greatest city locations I've been in the world.
Love the Canadians, their prairies, the Rockies, going up the Athabasca Glacier on the giant snow-mobiles, and best of all, flying over the Rockies in a 60-year old floatplane, and then landing on the Pacific Ocean - magical place.
And of course - the bears. Wherever we stayed they warn you of the bears, don't leave litter, don't try leaving food for them in the wilderness - but, when you see them loping along the roads or railway line, what a sight! You're a lucky man living out there - apart from the snow and the midges!
Oh my - what snow!! What a lot of water when it all melts! It must be extremely heavy on the roof too.
Some of my Grandmother's brothers emigrated to Porcupine Plain (just LOVE that name!!) in Saskatchewan in early 1900's, I should think that the hot summers & long cold winters must have been quite a shock & very hard for them.
I live in Dorset UK and the council here go into panic mode when we have just a few flakes of snow. I don't think they would cope here if we had we had snow like that. Here is what we had coming back from Scotland in March, hardly anything at all compared to what you get Bil.
Heres the worst recorded snowfall that Toronto ever had in 1944 and I had just got leave from the army for two weeks.I arrived the next morning at the train station and not a thing was moving,no trollys,trucks,cars even though the streets were full of them abandoned,so I walked and jogged about 10 miles home. These photos were taken 5 days after the storm,22 inches of snow.
An acquaintance of mine has posted the winter photo below as having been take in "Upstate NY...lake effects...closing 81 between a town called Brewerton and Watertown . " Can you give me some facts about photo? Thanks-- from Malone, Upstate, New York.
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High pressure system hanging over the West and Southwest parts of the country causing record temperatures
Palm Springs, California, could reach 134 degrees today as record heatwave continues
Death Valley in California reached only 125 on Saturday
The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was when Death Valley reached 134 in 1913
U.S. Airways cancels 18 flights in Phoenix because small airliners don't handle properly in heat about 117 degrees
High pressure system hanging over the West and Southwest parts of the country causing record temperatures
Palm Springs, California, could reach 134 degrees today as record heatwave continues
Death Valley in California reached only 125 on Saturday
The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was when Death Valley reached 134 in 1913
U.S. Airways cancels 18 flights in Phoenix because small airliners don't handle properly in heat about 117 degrees
Bill- I have cousins in Vancouver. My aunt married a Canadian who was here during the war- he was in the air force. She went back with him and lived there the rest of her life. I went there on my honeymoon - 20 years ago. It's a beautiful country.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Bill - I'm from Cornwall in the UK, but holiday in BC, and just love Vancouver - one of the greatest city locations I've been in the world.
Love the Canadians, their prairies, the Rockies, going up the Athabasca Glacier on the giant snow-mobiles, and best of all, flying over the Rockies in a 60-year old floatplane, and then landing on the Pacific Ocean - magical place.
And of course - the bears. Wherever we stayed they warn you of the bears, don't leave litter, don't try leaving food for them in the wilderness - but, when you see them loping along the roads or railway line, what a sight! You're a lucky man living out there - apart from the snow and the midges!
Oh my - what snow!! What a lot of water when it all melts! It must be extremely heavy on the roof too
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Some of my Grandmother's brothers emigrated to Porcupine Plain (just LOVE that name!!) in Saskatchewan in early 1900's, I should think that the hot summers & long cold winters must have been quite a shock & very hard for them.
I live in Dorset UK and the council here go into panic mode when we have just a few flakes of snow. I don't think they would cope here if we had we had snow like that. Here is what we had coming back from Scotland in March, hardly anything at all compared to what you get Bil.
Heres the worst recorded snowfall that Toronto ever had in 1944 and I had just got leave from the army for two weeks.I arrived the next morning at the train station and not a thing was moving,no trollys,trucks,cars even though the streets were full of them abandoned,so I walked and jogged about 10 miles home. These photos were taken 5 days after the storm,22 inches of snow.
Ah yes! I remember Ontario winters well - I lived in London Ontario for eight
years and never saw snow like it before or since! I've been back in England
for thirty years now, but will never forget my first winter in Ontario in 1975.
The snow started to fall in early November and we didn't see the pavements
again until March. On top of that we had an ice storm which brought down
the hydro wires, so we had no lighting or heating for days. We moan about
the weather here in England, but I'd rather winter here than in Ontario!
An acquaintance of mine has posted the winter photo below as having been take in "Upstate NY...lake effects...closing 81 between a town called Brewerton and Watertown . " Can you give me some facts about photo? Thanks-- from Malone, Upstate, New York.