Post by ottawagardener on Jan 27, 2009 8:28:02 GMT -5
So I just finished reading this cheesy book about 'Worst Weather in Canada' and may I say 
When reading about a blizzard in Niagra that deposited 12 metre high snow drift on the lake shore on houses that were acting like a snow fence, I thought that must have been a typo. Apparently the temperature dropped to minus 55 with the windchill, honestly. I was frightened. Then I thought about how long it would take for that snow to melt in the spring.
Reading about the Red River floods in Manitoba has confirmed my reluctance to live in Winnipeg (I love you guys but...) Ottawa only had the privledge of being witness to the ice storm in this book. An ice storm that shattered trees. I remember travelling to Montreal the spring afterward and forests were riddled with trees snapped in half.
I gotta admit that my gardening obsession made me principally gardening focused and the dirty thirties were described in a vividness that would make any farmer weep.
When reading about a blizzard in Niagra that deposited 12 metre high snow drift on the lake shore on houses that were acting like a snow fence, I thought that must have been a typo. Apparently the temperature dropped to minus 55 with the windchill, honestly. I was frightened. Then I thought about how long it would take for that snow to melt in the spring. Reading about the Red River floods in Manitoba has confirmed my reluctance to live in Winnipeg (I love you guys but...) Ottawa only had the privledge of being witness to the ice storm in this book. An ice storm that shattered trees. I remember travelling to Montreal the spring afterward and forests were riddled with trees snapped in half.
I gotta admit that my gardening obsession made me principally gardening focused and the dirty thirties were described in a vividness that would make any farmer weep.
