"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
12/06/2016 at 16:34 • Filed to: Snow
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
12/06/2016 at 16:34 • Filed to: Snow | 3
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Yesterday it snowed for the first time in Vancouver in 1000 days. Many buses abandoned, basically all the articulating ones jackknifed, and Simon Fraser University was closed because buses couldn’t get up Burnaby Mountain. I spent my day stuck behind people with summer tires. Today it is clear, sunny, and cold. More snow after tomorrow.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> gmctavish needs more space
12/06/2016 at 16:43 |
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I love Vancouver. Such a pretty city.
cluelessk
> gmctavish needs more space
12/06/2016 at 17:23 |
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I find it hilarious that in Winnipeg we have over 400 pieces of snow clearing/ sanding equipment and Vancouver has 44.
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gmctavish needs more space
> cluelessk
12/06/2016 at 18:54 |
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It seems pretty silly, but it really is very seldom necessary here
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> gmctavish needs more space
12/06/2016 at 19:49 |
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My cousin goes to SFU. I laughed my ass off when she said classes were canceled after I saw her pics. I’m not going to post another of my Jeep pictures, but while 4x4 and proper tires are great, experience is greater. I can acknowledge that Vancouver drivers don’t typically have much opportunity for gaining experience and that a handful of people can mess things up pretty horribly for everyone else (it still happens in Manitoba too), but that doesn’t mean I don’t find it hilarious.
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gmctavish needs more space
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/06/2016 at 20:15 |
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It happens every time it snows, no one believes the forecast and doesn’t put their winter tires on, plus all the people that never put winters on, and I don’t know if the buses even keep snow tires around. They’re always a mess when it snows, I feel sorry for people who rely on transit in the winter. Remember, this is a city in a temperate rainforest climate that still manages to have massive spikes in car accidents when fall comes around and the rain comes back. I mean the place is called Raincouver, and everyone still panics every year, so feel free to laugh at our collective inability to deal with weather
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> gmctavish needs more space
12/06/2016 at 21:37 |
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I know the drill. I lived on Vancouver Island for six years, and most of my mom’s immediate family lives in the lower mainland. We have similar problems out here during the first couple snowfalls, and pretty well any time there’s freezing rain. Hell, even I’m not exempt, I’ve seen my fair share of ditches because sometimes I deliberately drive a little recklessly... and/or deliberately drive places I definitely should not, like roads that are unmaintained even during the summer because they go to places that really don’t exist any more*. But that doesn’t mean I don’t laugh, and that I won’t continue.
*A few days ago I had a kindly old couple give me a confused and concerned look after I refused their help when they stopped to assist because I “looked like I was hung up” on a four-foot deep berm left by the plows on the side of the highway to prevent people from driving into such a road. I think they left when as they were realizing that I hadn’t come from the highway side. In my defence there wasn’t a berm at the bottom but not driving through it would have meant reversing about a mile down a steep twisty hill, which is why I tried to push through it. In their defence I was actually pretty badly stuck. I just didn’t want to get dragged through something I couldn’t see, relying on somebody else attaching things to parts of my vehicle to do said dragging because I couldn’t get either door open because of the snow bank. I was eventually able to rock the truck free, and eventually made it through the berm, although it was about a half-hour after they left.