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- From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
- Newsgroups: can.general
- Subject: Re: Snow in Vancouver
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:30:34 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- References: <1gs05iINN7rg@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1gt4ajINNamk@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1gtirkINNbku@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1gtirkINNbku@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> PHANTOM@ERICH.TRIUMF.CA (DONG, ALAN) writes:
- >In <1gt4ajINNamk@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> I wrote
- >
- >> This morning, the temperature in Vancouver was -6. At my altitude,
- >> about 100m, in North Vancouver we still have the crusted remains,
- >> a few cm thick, of a snowfall three days ago, and I expect it to
- >> stick around a few days more. ...
- >Vancouver may yet get a White Christmas... unconfirmed reports indicate that
- >another six inches will fall this weekend. ...
-
- We got about 30 cm at my house (microclimates are small in a city
- that climbs halfway up a bunch of km-and-a-half mountains). I spent
- most of Saturday shovelling, with about half of each shift devoted to
- catching up to where I'd left off. Little traffic except 4-by-4s,
- finally in their own element after a year of chauffeuring kids
- around our clean streets. Since we're on a merely important street,
- one of the two ways up to the plateau above us, we didn't get
- ploughed until the evening; the little snow-clearing fleet we have
- may be pretty good for the Vancouver region, but it can just about
- keep up with the top priority, keeping the bus routes clear, when
- the snow keeps falling. Up at the top of the Highland route things
- get steep enough that people spend thousands of dollars building
- flights of steps all the way up the edges of their driveways.
-
- Now, Tuesday morning, it's been raining on and off for three days,
- and only the relatively low temperatures will ensure the lawn still
- qualifies technically for White Christmas. If the temperature had
- been a few degrees lower, however, that rain would all have been
- snow, and we would have had one of our legendary Greater Vancouver
- chaos situations.
-