More Lake Ontario:
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I love when he says, “oh geez man!” In that perfect hoser accent.
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Yeah, but that top video is probably from around the mouth of the Baptism River in Minnesota, if it relates to the photo shoots these people have done in the last few days. That being so, I don’t doubt it has been nasty around Thunder Bay and other points east on the North Shore.
Wonder where the Burlington video was taken. Looks a bit like Lakeshore near Burloak looking towards the Oakville pier, but it has been so many years since I lived down that way that I could be wrong.
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I just got woken up about 20 minutes ago when the air circulation stopped in my building. Yup, power outage. I can hear the generators for the hall lights going.
I called it in to Toronto Hydro so we could get on what must be a very long list of outages. Fingers crossed.
Crap. I really didn’t want to brave the roads today to go to work. And I’m not sure how long my hot water heater will stay hot. Crap crap crap.
ETA: oh thank goodness. Hour 3 and the power came back on, just as I was washing my hair in the sink to save hot water. So unless something else happens, I don’t have to toss that big pot of soup I made last night to last the week.
Yeah. Definitely working from home today so I can keep an eye on what’s happening locally. Judging from how the traffic times are jumping up, it’s miserable out there.
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Power went off here in Etobicoke about 8:00pm and was restored between 1:30 and 3:00am. (I’m back, folks! Did you miss me?) Given the type of storm, I wasn’t really surprised, and I had done some minimal preparation. Wow, we have a lot of flashlights.
I feel for the Toronto Hydro crews working in those foul conditions, but the overtime must be wondrous.
Good idea. Our street has big tire-grabbing rows of slush, and the city isn’t plowing.
I think so. My brother-in-law took some stills in what looks like the same area. In the shots facing west, the Burlington Skyway is visible and quite close.
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They never plough the side streets in my neighbourhood because they are lined with cars doing overnight parking (two car families with one car garages).
Plus I commute to Mississauga, and it has been my observation that once you get to the QEW/Dixie area the weather and the roads are usually worse than in TO.
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Finally found an article that sums up what’s been going on with this journalist. I am so never giving Maclean’s a single dime ever again.
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Do you know the trick of freezing a small container of water and then putting a coin on top, leaving it in the freezer that way? If you see that the coin has moved to the center or, heaven forbid, the bottom of the container, you’ll know the food isn’t safe to keep.
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I’ve never heard of that; that sounds incredibly useful. Is there a specific minimum/maximum size for the container of water?
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You’ve reminded me of the time that not one but THREE transformers caught on fire on poles in backyards on a block that has no alley or other way to get into the backyards except (usually locked) private gates, on a night when it rained nonstop, oh and did I mention that it was Halloween? To make matters even worse, one of the lines was down across the cyclone fencing that marks the property lines for everyone on the block, which means stepping into a backyard or touching any of the fence anywhere on the block would have been VERY BAD NEWS. Utility company and fire department…they worked all night, in the friggin’ rain, having to clamber over fences for the places where no one answered to let them in via the gate.
Whatever they’re getting paid, it’s not enough for a night like that.
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I would use common sense. You don’t want it so big that 1) it takes up too much space and 2) it takes longer to start to melt. The container I use holds 4 ounces if you fill to the very top (which you would never do before putting in the freezer), so my quarter is sitting on about 3 ounces of water.
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Oh, and make sure it’s transparent enough that you can eyeball it quickly rather than have to pull it out and open it up. You want to make it easy to check, every time you open the freezer.
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Cool, thank you!
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TO People: you okay?
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Thanks for asking. I’m a long way from Yonge & Finch*, so all I know is what I hear on the news. So far at least three dead. A witness told the Star that the driver appeared to be deliberately aiming at people.
*Toronto is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
– Douglas Adams
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So this morning when they said Yonge and Finch was closed for an investigation, they meant… freaking hell. That’s awful.
ETA: He used a fucking rental van? That’s a new level of coward.
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