Post Your Snow Pics!
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Rama said:I'm located in Southern Ontario, in Canada. It's near 2 of the Great Lakes so when the weather is coming from the South I get snow coming off Lake Erie, and when it's coming from the North I get it from Lake Huron. Most of this is from the Lake Huron side.
Not a ton of snow by our standards, but enough to keep the M in the garage.
Cheers guys.
Al
Al can I ask an off-topic question? My wife is trying to get me to sell our holiday home in France and buy somewhere in Canada for retirement in a few years time.....wheres the best place if you don't want to be plagued with insects? I favour BC or Vancouver Island myself but open to suggestions....
lacroupade, mcbee here. The Okanagan Valley of BC is a big favourite for retirement. The east coast of Vancouver Island around Comox is also a biggie. Not many bugs there by the way. Nothing much to do either except watch old people get older but they have great weather for sports car driving and awesome ocean fishing. Less snow than anywhere else in Canada that I know of, (my Gf's parents live there). Victoria is nice and is full of retired Executives. That means property is very expensive there. somewhat like the UK.
Al can fill you in on Ontario and the east side, it's his bailiwick. (black flies, ouch)
Al can fill you in on Ontario and the east side, it's his bailiwick. (black flies, ouch)
lacroupade said:
Well the West was covered very well by mcbeee, and if you are thinking about the Ontario area, to keep away from the bugs (yes the black flies can be quite bad) then you need to stay to the South-West near where I am. Keep in mind I'm only 1.5 hours or so from the most Southern part of Canada, and actually further South than many Americans are, so this area is warm (relatively speaking). Pretty much anything North of Toronto and you will get black fies, but increasing in numbers and duration as you go North. Here we have some mosquitoes but nothing too bad in that regard. I rarely wear any repellent.
The weather here in the winter can get quite cold - we usually have some days below -20 C each winter, and with the wind chill added it can feel like -35 C some days. We gets lots of snow too. In the summer it can be +30 C and with a lot of humidity, so it can feel like +40C. I think the actual lowest and highest temps I've seen here are -35C to +38 C. Quite a range.
East of here I don't have much detail for you, but the weather isn't any better than here and the bugs are probably worse. For easier living in retirement I would suggest the West coast. BTW stay away from Winnipeg, Manitoba (affectionally called "Winterpeg, Manisnowba" by many here). Cold, windy in the winter, and mosquitoes the size of small aircraft in the summer. Not fun at all!
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Al
this is where i left mine
had to dig it out two days later!
had to dig it out two days later!
Well after doing about 1,000 faultless miles this week in all conditions, I was caught out less than 20 yard from my front door when I came over a speed bump to find the car had decided not to respond to steering inputs any more.
I could have oversteered it straight, but I'd have hit the bus stop and may have been going faster than the 5mph I was. The bump sounded huge, and the damage is the worst I've had on an alloy since the 18" scar on the CSLs I had, but it was still bad enough, and this one was my fault :headbang:
I've done a quick once-over and it's not vibrating or making any noise - although that's not saying much as the roads are quite bumpy with lots of blobs of ice all over and the brakes are grumbling due to the amount of salt/grit in them.
I could have oversteered it straight, but I'd have hit the bus stop and may have been going faster than the 5mph I was. The bump sounded huge, and the damage is the worst I've had on an alloy since the 18" scar on the CSLs I had, but it was still bad enough, and this one was my fault :headbang:
I've done a quick once-over and it's not vibrating or making any noise - although that's not saying much as the roads are quite bumpy with lots of blobs of ice all over and the brakes are grumbling due to the amount of salt/grit in them.
Ouch looks nasty! :thumbsdown:mmm-five said:
I'm wondering when my icicle will stop the Sky reception or pull the dish off the wall altogether, although it seems to be OK for the time being.
