Southern Ontario’s being hit with snow and ice…it’s just icky-cold-rain here in Warren, MI. But up in the pinky of the Mitten (Harbor Springs area) it’s snowing and icy.
All I know is we better bloody well have some nice flowers in May…
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/southern-ontario-bracing-winter-storm-122051621.html
I think so. Seems like it, although I’m not really knowledgeable about the distinctions between the different store chains.
Right now in Toronto it’s the worst kind of crappy winter weather — rain, sleet, freezing rain, ice pellets. I hope the storm is less “historic” than the one in 2013 that saw us without power for 72 hours. I’m busy charging all the batteries in the house.
From your link:
Peter Kimbell, a meteorologist with the weather agency, said some communities in southwestern Ontario near Sarnia and Lake Erie could get up to 40 millimetres of freezing rain — more than the 30 millimetres that hit Toronto in 2013, leaving parts of Ontario without power for days.
“It’s a lot of freezing rain, no question about it,” said Kimbell, with characteristic Canadian eloquence.
(boldface mine)
Which means that folks in MI on the Lake Huron border are getting slammed, like Port Huron.
In the Great Toronto Snow Storm of 1999, we had to climb out the front window because our storm doors were blocked, then dig away the drift in front of the garage door to get to the shovels. After that, I put a worn-out old shovel in a corner of the basement storage room, in case something similar happened again.
Today the front storm door was frozen shut. I managed to force open the back one, and used the crappy old emergency shovel for the first time in 19 years to clear the doors. The snow, or rather granular ice pellets, had avalanched off the roof and was about 18" deep on the front step. It was deceptively easy to push a shovel into, almost like powder snow, but that just allowed me to get a shovel full of HEAVY snow. I’ll leave the rest to melt in the next few days, as it probably will.
The great thing about an April snow storm is that it’s light enough to shovel well past 7:00pm. /s
April is the cruelest month.
More freezing rain and ice pellets overnight. My wife is dressed to go to exercise class with her friend. Front storm door blocked by ice. Back storm door blocked by ice. Should I go out the front window as I did before?
Cons:
– The junipers under the window are 19 years bigger than last time.
– I am 19 years older than last time.
– Everything is covered in ice.
Pros:
– None
Try the window just to see. All three casements are frozen shut. Never mind.
Remove the #$@%!! sticky upper and lower glass panes from the storm door. Slide screen out of the way. Reach through opening and chip away ice at the base of the door. Door opens easily. Victory! Wife is off to exercise class.
Replace #$@%!! sticky upper and lower glass panes.
I should clear the steps at least.
I am just going outside, and may be some time.
Seems like you should keep a spare snowblower in the basement.
That’s so… wait. Is that green grass?
Here’s the street in front of my building, bearing in mind I’m a 5 minute walk from the lake and therefore enjoy the full force of the lake effect.
Yep, it was like nearly 70 last week.
Pardon the condition of the garage and the fence; genteel poverty has become a way of life here, lol. (I just don’t want to be looked at like I’m a Snopes, from “God’s Little Acre”, lol; I don’t think ANY of my ancestors were ever super-well-off economically, but don’t know for sure.)
It wouldn’t fit through the window. And technically, to have a spare snowblower I would first have to have a snowblower. I had a spare teenager for a while, but they’re so hard to start.
April Lucy is the cruelest month.
Hopefully it’s not that bad.
Preach it, brother!
Hah? What’m I missing here?
Through the cunning use of strikeouts, I changed “April is the cruelest month” to “Lucy is the cruelest”, in reference to the taunting picture of your backyard. Did that not come through on your computing machine?
And 70 degrees? What do you take me for? Do you live in a sauna?
Oh, wait. You meant 21, didn’t you?
Check out the waves on Lake Ontario in the background.
Forgive me, I’m not used to being referred to as “the cruelest”.
Um…what was taunting about it? The swampiness?
My desktop, or the one in my head?
For one day. With winds up to 18-20 MPH. Then down to 50s. Then, 40s. And today…30something (0something to you, or close to):
For those who don’t know: that’s not the ocean, that’s a freshwater lake about 350 miles inland from the ocean.
I can only imagine what Lake Superior is doing right now, if that’s Ontario.
The near-tropical lack of snowdrifts. But if it wasn’t a taunt, I retract everything I said. 
Poor daffodils. I’m worried about my rhubarb, which until yesterday was sprouting merrily. It may pull through — rhubarb makes crocuses look like wimps.
