Its a bit foreign for me seeing everything shut down from the foot of snow around Vancouver. Every other place in Canada would be business as usual, but not not the south coast of BC. I cannot really blame them too much considering this was the snowiest November on record. It was also tied for the wettest November on record, which by the way, is the wettest month of the year on average around here.
Although the -12 C temperature was a far cry from the -41 degrees they got in the Chilcotin area 300km to the northwest of Vancouver, it did create some problems. The newly purchased trolley buses failed to work. so they had to run the old 1970s buses. It took me 2 hours just to get from Burnaby to UBC by transit on Tuesday as a result of the ice up. In comparison, driving takes half an hour.
Driving around here did not seem that bad this week because the main roads are continually salted, sanded and plowed, but the side streets are not designed to accommodate any of this activity resulting is slipperier conditions.
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Total snow : 38.6 cm
Total Precipitation: 350.8 mm
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