OK if you have ever lived in Canada save yourself now and just go do something more constructive because these are pictures of ... WINTER.
But if you are from Darwin NT Australia and you keep telling me ... "Oh I'd love to see snow and experience winter", this post is for YOU.
Actually in Orangeville we are lucky because we do get quite a bit of snow and it's sticks around. But road maintenance has to happen and that is what ruins snow. They put down a combination of snow and gravel/dirt to give us some grip on the roads.
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| This is just a small side street. You can see the gravel/dirt mix that they have put on the road. Hence Canada=SLOP. This stuff is ugly. |
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| Sizing up a bit of chunked icy snow |
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| We have liftoff and soon to be smash. |
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| That snow is got to go somewhere and when the street is a dead end they just make a pile and wait for it to melt away. This one will probably last till May and be a lot bigger. It would be too costly to put the snow in dump trucks and truck them away to a bare field. Not to mention that all that snow has a ton of salt in it which would kill the vegetation. |
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| All that salt and dirt accumulates in the back of your tires. Hence the SLOP. This is why cars rust out so fast here. |
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| This Santa was way bigger than the house |
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| Snow plow, this guy is plowing and dumping the gravel/sand mix |
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| Enough of snow lets go to the greatest store in the world, and it's not IKEA, it's Costco. We are in line for a Hotdog. It's now $1.50 it used to be $1.99 2 years ago. |
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| Pizza $1.99, hotdog with drink $1.50 then add %13 tax. Pretty cheap meal. Oh and the drink is endless. The only bad thing is that they switched from Coke to Pepsi ... BOOOOO |
