I was born and raised around the great lakes in Ontario so waking up with a foot+ of snow in the morning for days on end isn't anything new. Back home you knew you were getting hammered once the bottom of the street signs were starting to be burried in snowbanks. Never came close to 12' tho. Here we get a few inches and people can't get around. Funny how people adapt to different environments.

 

You knew you were getting hammered when the snow hit the bootom of street signs....... Thats a blizzard if ive ever heard of one

 

http://www.gravityfed.com/misc/skibu...ow-feb2007.jpg pretty insane to imagine it. i hope this winter is good, but not 12 feet good haha. id settle for 8ish!

 

Dosent even seem real lol

 

I grew up In a bunch of towns in Ontario as a kid. I remember in 94ish i was living in Sue St Marie. That winter we got hammered. We had snow past our front door height, we used the back door to get in and out of the house, and schools shut down for 2 weeks. National guard had to come bail people out of there houses on the harder hit areas of the area, near Lake Superior.

Reminds me of the stories of when i was young, we used to make massive tunnels and caves in the street side snow banks, until a few kids got ground up in the industrial sized snow blowers that year.

 

Yep that's probably the same year I remember being bad too or at least it was in 1995. I remember driving down highway 108 into Elliot and the snow banks each side were probably 8-10' eventhough the road is supposed to drop off some at the shoulders. Really felt like a bobsled run where there was really nowhere to go other than down the road. If we got half of that in Red Deer, I think the City would shut down for a few months!

 

Ya it might have been 95. I just scoured the web a bit and found a few records for the region. for dec, 1995. the 5 day storm was 62 inches, 28 inches of it came in one day.

Red Deer with that much snow would be awesome. Ive missed the snow seasons of Ontario, out here just isnt the same.

Even better, imagine that kind of snow in vancouver.

 

It'll melt anyway lol.

 

it really didnt. there was a parking lot where they had to pile all of the snow because there was no where else to put it and it lasted untill the next winter lol. there was like a 3 foot pile left by the time it snowed again in december the next year.

 

Ridiclous! Lol We cant get snow to last 3 days straight here much less all winter