anyone going to work in this snow storm? downtown toronto?

[akito925]

anyone going to work in this snow storm? downtown toronto?

I'm about 25cm deep in snow where I am.. lol.

no way my car is going anywhere.. I'd can't even get moving out of my driveway.. lol shoved the driveway.. need a 4x4 car.. lol.

the plow got my street once..

wow.. I'd expect the highways to be at least wet and plowed.. but nothing is done at all...

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/camera/burlington/camhome.htm

take a look.

[felixdd]

I'm going to Pickering to pick up someone from a car body shop (because of a car accident).

Then I'm going to drive to Woodbridge to get a quote for damage to my car caused by another car accident (that occurred 2 days before the aforementioned one).

My parents return tonight at 18:00. There is a snowstorm. 2 car accidents in 3 days.

Isn't Christmas grand?

[akito925]

well I'd guess I won't be going to work..

get out of the house start up the car, drive down the street.. wow not bad.. stop at the stop sign.. got stuck.. lol..

spend 30 mins with my shovel from my house.. dug the car out, returend home. lol.

[Shaf]

I work downtown and won't go in today.

[Driftwood]

My office just called... Snow day! Woo! I feel like a kid again. Now I can get some more sleep and play video games all day. :)

[TenzoR]

my last day working !! *as coop student*

i'm finally going back to Toronto and spend it with family :)

[skuntbehavior]

i am on nights working for the gov't. we are supposed to finish at 7 but they let us go at 5am. i live at mccowan and steeles and i work at yonge and finch. took me 45 minutes to get home.
well sure @30-40km/h.
i am in a condo and i can hear pieces of ice hitting the side of the window sill as it falls from above.
don't go out if you don't have to boys and girls.

[confused]

there looks to be a tornado at 401/dufferin on that compass traffic cameras site

[Shaf]

Quite a few cancellations on http://www.gotransit.com/publicroot/TodayServiceUpdate/ShowServiceException.asp

[Degenerate]

The roads are absolutely disgusting. I almost fell on my yellow ass in our stupid parking lot at work. :mad:

[dashit]

yup i made it downtown! drove from markham took 2hrs. Plus 10 second naptime at every red light...DANGEROUS!

[yatko]

I made it. One of the first winters that I don't need to drive. Good thing that I didn't even bother changing my low profile summer tires.
TTC ride from home took me less than half hour :)

[chellemi]

i made it to work downtown from markham today:D

took the richmond hill go train.. the engine that was responsible for heat and lights went out.. it was cold :x

driving to the train station took.. much longer than usual. geez. i probably should have just stayed home.

[bluetroll]

hehehehe..... i'm at work.... but then i only hafta drive 10 mins on a nice day... but took 20 mins today.

the drive was fun... my civic w/ winter tires pulled through.

[alkaseltzer01]

I went to work. Drove from Milton to Scarborough in 1.5hr. I had about 20 cm of snow in Milton, shovelled myself out and was fine...

[jerryhung]

http://tinypic.com/yyp3s

This is what I saw when I woke up, how sad :(

I'm going to Toronto today to see Mamma Mia

[mbg]

wow.. I'd expect the highways to be at least wet and plowed.. but nothing is done at all...

I wouldn't expect that much...it's difficult to keep on top of it when the temperature drops, the snow is falling hard, and the traffic is light... I don't blame them at all, but I will have concerns if it's not in better shape tomorrow morning :)

[canook]

Not very often a Manitoban gets to say this to a bunch of Southern Ontarians, so: http://www.frontiernet.net/~dffynst/nelson.wav

http://us.st8.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/wickedcoolstuff_1826_32300043

[felixdd]

I'm going to Pickering to pick up someone from a car body shop (because of a car accident).

Then I'm going to drive to Woodbridge to get a quote for damage to my car caused by another car accident (that occurred 2 days before the aforementioned one).

My parents return tonight at 18:00. There is a snowstorm. 2 car accidents in 3 days.

Isn't Christmas grand?

Well I got up 6 am to go to meet the guy at the body shop. On the highway at 7:20 am and he calls me and says that he doesn't want to go because he thinks no one will pick him up to get his car. I convince him otherwise.

~8 am he calls me and says his car is stuck and he can't get out. I say that the body shop boss is going on vacation until the 2nd week of January and he begrudgingly says it can't be helped.

I got home at 10 am. It's hell frozen over outside.

[CSK'sMom]

Hubby just called and he's just leaving Toronto, we'll see how long it takes him to get home. He said that even at midnight last night the roads were a mess going in. Many of the guys there said they hit the freezing rain going in. It's currently raining here in Niagara so I expect him to hit the freezing stuff around Burlington...

[tkl]

No choice. I have to go.. I hope the all season bicycle tires on my car pulls through.

[Kazaam]

I figure I'll have to go to work, Its supposed to hit 0 degrees today :cool:

[skanji]

WHY DON'T YOU TORONTO PANSIES CALL THE ARMY?!?!?!??!?!
:cheesygri :cheesygri :cheesygri :cheesygri

We have has 4-5 storms already...and our city keeps on a' tickin'!!! Ask the east coast how they handle their snow too!!!

[Kazaam]

Dont all of you GTA, Ottawa, Montreal get all the same weather? I mean your so close together.

[skanji]

http://tinypic.com/yyp3s

This is what I saw when I woke up, how sad :(


my god, how do you torontonians survive?!?!? look at all that snow...geez, it's so much!!!

hillarious!

[felixdd]

my god, how do you torontonians survive?!?!? look at all that snow...geez, it's so much!!!

hillarious!

That pic's actually one of the nicer locations. At where I'm at in Toronto, the snow on my driveway is almost up my shins.

And the rain is coming and freezing over the top layer. Gonna wait till it dies down a bit and see if I need to grab my axe.... :razz:

[CSK'sMom]

Kazaam, that's not the case at all because of the lakes and the geography of the area. We get a whole lot more snow here in Niagara than Toronto does because of sitting in the middle of 2 lakes. We get lake effect from both lakes here. Kingston gets more than Toronto being on the eastern end of the lake and the prevailing winds coming up the lake (same as Buffalo). Niagara Falls sits on the top of the escarpment so we get more snow than St. Catharines. It's a very complex area for weather patterns and predicting it...

[skanji]

That pic's actually one of the nicer locations. At where I'm at in Toronto, the snow on my driveway is almost up my shins.

And the rain is coming and freezing over the top layer. Gonna wait till it dies down a bit and see if I need to grab my axe.... :razz:

dude, i was joking....

snow almost up to your shins??? ...and that's considered bad??? That has happened to us 4-5 times already!!

[Carnage]

I made it work just fine.


figures though I have no problems in the blizzard. But yet last monday on a clear night I ditched my car in the middle of nowhere. Damn phantom country shoulders.

I'll be posting pics of my stupidty this evening. ;)

[skanji]

Kazaam, that's not the case at all because of the lakes and the geography of the area. We get a whole lot more snow here in Niagara than Toronto does because of sitting in the middle of 2 lakes. We get lake effect from both lakes here. Kingston gets more than Toronto being on the eastern end of the lake and the prevailing winds coming up the lake (same as Buffalo). Niagara Falls sits on the top of the escarpment so we get more snow than St. Catharines. It's a very complex area for weather patterns and predicting it...

ditto for Ottawa. We get a ton of snow and wind every year. This year has been extremely bad.... our snow banks are almost as high as our cars!!

But you torontoians try to survive when you get snow "almost up to your shins"....bbwwwwahahahahahahaha!

[Carnage]

It was alot higher then my shins where I am.

The roads though were a mess. But nothing I couldn't handle. Some people overeact in a bit of snow.

But I like all the snow. Holidays are here, and drunken toboganning!! :)

[felixdd]

dude, i was joking....

snow almost up to your shins??? ...and that's considered bad??? That has happened to us 4-5 times already!!

I know. But for "bad" is relative and for Toronto it's bad.

I've been in Ottawa though. Man it can get might cold and windy there....my bro was there for a year going to Carleton. So if not for me, then he, knows your pain :)

[CSK'sMom]

But Skanji, it's all relative. When an area that is not used to a dumping of snow gets dumped on it, it's a big deal. I would imagine that folks in Labrador thinks you guys in Ottawa are snow wimps too! ;) I have a friend in Kentucky that has over 12" on the ground right now, another friend in Tennesee that has 1/2" of ice covering everything. They aren't used to this kind of weather...

[Neb]

i live in North York, work in Whitby. The commute took 1 hr today. Funnything is, where i live it was not plowed at all even on the main streets, then on the 401 it wasn't plowed either. When i got to Pickering, the 401 is plowed clean from the border on, and all the streets were plowed.. Why does GTA suck so much at removing snow???

This was at 8:30am too.

YEY 100th post! :D :cheesygri

[sleepyguy]

About 6cm when I left the house then I started to 'wet' snow. I can't believe I'm going to work all week... I have to work friday and monday as well... It's a damn ghost town here. Good thing I'm strolling in extremely late and leaving early :)

[Degenerate]

I have to work friday and monday as well...

Ditto. I also have to work the 31st day time job half day and then work at the restaurant in the evening.

[d_jedi]

Took significantly longer to get in, but I did make it to work. I dunno why everyone's complaining so much, the roads are bad b/c they haven't been plowed.. and the freezing rain makes driving all the more dangerous.. but this snowstorm (of what I've seen of it) seems more on average than anything extraordinary..

[doraemi]

i had to swim my way to work today...the snow was so freaking thick and heavy...and the bus never came...grr...

its raining now too...the snow better not turn to ice afterward

remember the huge snowstorm one year? the snow piled up was taller then me

[jedijome]

ditto for Ottawa. We get a ton of snow and wind every year. This year has been extremely bad.... our snow banks are almost as high as our cars!!

But you torontoians try to survive when you get snow "almost up to your shins"....bbwwwwahahahahahahaha!


oh so what you're saying is, that you prefer to live in a city year after year, that has proved itself as having crappier weather than another city, and you make fun of us. :lol: yeah a smart person would have moved, taking punishment like that doesnt make you manly , just dumb. :)

[canook]

oh so what you're saying is, that you prefer to live in a city year after year, that has proved itself as having crappier weather than another city, and you make fun of us. :lol: yeah a smart person would have moved, taking punishment like that doesnt make you manly , just dumb. :)

There's more to a city than just weather. Living in Toronto, I can see how people might not realize that, but it's true. :) I live in Winnipeg - come on, we've got the crappiest weather of any of the major Canadian cities. All the same, I love it here. I don't think that makes me dumb, although it does force me to be a bit hardier. :)

[alkaseltzer01]

WHY DON'T YOU TORONTO PANSIES CALL THE ARMY?!?!?!??!?!
:cheesygri :cheesygri :cheesygri :cheesygri

We have has 4-5 storms already...and our city keeps on a' tickin'!!! Ask the east coast how they handle their snow too!!!


Of course Ottawa keeps ticking, 75% are government workers.... they called in sick today so the 25% remaining have a clear path to work. I have live in both Toronto and Ottawa, neither has it better or worse.

Why do we all love to complain about how bad one's city's weather is like. So we can all share your misery.

[jedijome]

There's more to a city than just weather. Living in Toronto, I can see how people might not realize that, but it's true. :) I live in Winnipeg - come on, we've got the crappiest weather of any of the major Canadian cities. All the same, I love it here. I don't think that makes me dumb, although it does force me to be a bit hardier. :)

well i'd agree if we're talking about montreal. :) I/d move there despite their crappy weather. on the other hand i wouldnt move to Ottawaunless i got a good job there. From what i've heard, ottawa is really pretty, and a nice place to live, but if you're young its kinda boring.

And you're making fun of tornoto and how people see weather as defining a city, in that case go talk to the people in vancouver. :)

[eelfliw]

Took me 1.5 hr to drive home from work last night.

This morning, it took me less than 10 seconds to get to work ...... working from home!

[Aleem]

dude, i was joking....

snow almost up to your shins??? ...and that's considered bad??? That has happened to us 4-5 times already!!


For the record, skanji's wife shovels the driveway

[Degenerate]

For the record, skanji's wife shovels the driveway

Yeah? Sens fans http://forums.offtopic.com/images/smilies/greddy.gif

Jokes... ;)

[felixdd]

...why are we flaming skanji here?

EDIT: oh wait...most posts say say "j/k" on them :razz:

[Degenerate]

...why are we flaming skanji here?

It's all in fun not we're not flaming.

You're going to get flamed now.
:cheesygri

[felixdd]

It's all in fun not we're not flaming.

You're going to get flamed now.
:cheesygri

But I thought we're tight? :cheesygri (I need a homey smiley here)

[skanji]

For the record, skanji's wife shovels the driveway

...don't make me start on YOUR wife...you should see the loser she's married to!!!

(btw, aleem is my real life brother... kinda slow coming around to new technologies including webcams and rfd!!)

[skanji]

honestly, i am shocked that the army hasn't been called in....don't you guys have the number on speed dial!!!!

[mbg]

honestly, i am shocked that the army hasn't been called in....don't you guys have the number on speed dial!!!!

There's a new hippie mayor in Toronto now... instead of snow shovels and guns, this new mayor prefers dusting the roads with rose petals and defrosting them with hair dryers.

[skanji]

There's a new hippie mayor in Toronto now... instead of snow shovels and guns, this new mayor prefers dusting the roads with rose petals and defrosting them with hair dryers.

hahahaha!!!!

[Nyte]

i am on nights working for the gov't. we are supposed to finish at 7 but they let us go at 5am. i live at mccowan and steeles and i work at yonge and finch. took me 45 minutes to get home.
well sure @30-40km/h.


You think thats bad? all the cars were going at 10km/h when I went to work this morning.

[sammy]

only 3 people in the dept of about 30 showed up. wusses.