This
weekend winter started with a bang in Ontario. While it varied what kind of
weather you got depending on what part of the province you are in, generally it
was not very fun- ice, snow, and generally horrible driving conditions.
In
Mississauga we got ice. Fortunately our power only blipped but throughout the
GTA a lot of people are potentially looking at a cold few days. No power for
Christmas- that’s so much worse than a lump of coal.
So ice
covered everything today. The bush in front of our house was blocking
the way out of the door....
It was
coated in ice...
And
eventually we had to hack back a large section of it, otherwise getting out
tomorrow morning would have involved hugging the brick wall.
All of the
neighbourhood trees were coating in ice and when the wind kicked up it’s rather
loud...
Fortunately
most of the trees around me are still upright, although my neighbour had a few
large limbs snap off of a tree in his backyard.
The rosebush is covered in ice and looks like a floppy mess...
The cars
were coated in ice. There were even small bits of branches frozen to the hood
of the Civic...
Everything is covered in ice! Ugh. Ice
storms are like the worse impulse purchase you’ve ever made- you think it’s
pretty for about ten minutes and then you realize that nothing good will ever
come from it. Getting to work tomorrow should be fun... gah!
