A Couple Pictures

[dboles]

Just feeling my way around the site.Managed to get my 1st post in the wrong place.So I thought I would post a couple pictures.
Here in the interior of BC we have been getting lots of snow. My home this winter

And another of my trapping cabin

from the ground to the peak of the cabin 15 feet

 

[crazyclimber]

:O saying that's a lot of snow would be a bit of an understatement! Can only imagine what would happen if we had that much here in the UK!!

Also welcome to the site!

 

[dboles]

That much snow or more is the normal for here
Last year on the side porch after the roof slid

Dan'l

 

[philaw]

I can't begin to imagine what it would be like when that starts melting. Or how even a snow-plough could drive through it. Or how you get home before spring. Or if it will all melt before the following winter.

 

[perpetualelevator]

Looks like a great winter if you're prepared for it. We've already got too much snow for our plows to handle in Toronto. How far into the interior are you? Is it nice dry Rogers Pass snow, or heavy Whistler snow?

 

[mr dazzler]

:O saying that's a lot of snow would be a bit of an understatement! Can only imagine what would happen if we had that much here in the UK!!

Also welcome to the site!

I jst been reading a marvellous book, "England is a village" about an english village experiencing a very deep bitterly cold winter just pror to WW2. The snow was above the hedgerow's, and the same thing had happened some year's earlier. I (just) remember 1963 our house was cut off by massive snow drift's you couldnt see the hawthorn hedge any more. !979 me and my Dad got cut off for 4 days when the Darlington to Barnard castle road was under a massive snow drift even huge 4 wheel drive shovel's couldnt break through it. When they did finally cut through it they showed photo's of pepole standing on the roof of land rover's the snow drift was still towering way above them, it was like a crevase. Nowady's we get an inch of wet slop "snow" and it's like a crisis

 

[Greg]

Last year in Pembrokeshire, Wales we had literally half an inch of snow and the whole county came to a standstill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Shewie]

Great photos Dan - thanks for sharing them with us.

I spent three weeks touring the rockies last summer and would have loved to have seen some of the sights under snow. We`re saving up to make it back over there for the winter olympics hopefully.


Rich

 

[dboles]

Its Rogers Pass snow.Im in Revelstoke and the cabin is about 20 miles from the Pass.
It never floods here all sand under the town and it drains straight away in the spring.the city uses a grater to plough the snow to the centre of the road and then it is snowblowed into dump trucks and trucked away.
Im a railroader ride( freight trains) These 2 photos were taken near Rogers Pass last winter by a friend working on the rail snow plough

and

thanks
Dan'l

 

[crazyclimber]

I jst been reading a marvellous book, "England is a village" about an english village experiencing a very deep bitterly cold winter just pror to WW2. The snow was above the hedgerow's, and the same thing had happened some year's earlier. I (just) remember 1963 our house was cut off by massive snow drift's you couldnt see the hawthorn hedge any more. !979 me and my Dad got cut off for 4 days when the Darlington to Barnard castle road was under a massive snow drift even huge 4 wheel drive shovel's couldnt break through it. When they did finally cut through it they showed photo's of pepole standing on the roof of land rover's the snow drift was still towering way above them, it was like a crevase. Nowady's we get an inch of wet slop "snow" and it's like a crisis

I've heard a similar story off my Dad; one year walking to school in the bottom of the valley but walking directly over the hedges the snow was so high. I think that was the same year he was playing cowboys and indians with his younger brother and shot him in the face with a bow and arrow. Just missed his eye - Lyn then hit him over the head with a home-made cricket bat. That says nothing about my family as a whole I promise - just one of those things that always seems to come up at weddings!!
That much snow today though and schools wouldn't even consider opening. Whether that's a good or a bad thing probably depends on whether you're in the 4 - 16 year old age range mind

 

[mr dazzler]

Actually it was a laugh realy. We had been out to sheffield on business and it started snowing on our way back, we could only do about 20 mph up the motorway it was drifting even there. When we get to scotch corner the a 66 was shut (as you would expect) but so was the A67 and the bishop auclkand route, we tried every way possible to get to Barnard castle and each time the police turned us back-to Darlington. We ended up staying in tempory acomodation in an old folks home, apart from us there was a young lad who had been in borstal and an old chap who had tried and failed to get to a funeral some place. It was a bit like a victoria wood type comedy scenario. When we did get home after 4 day's I made some money digging folk's cars out.

 

[WhichDoctor]

I've heard a similar story off my Dad; one year walking to school in the bottom of the valley but walking directly over the hedges the snow was so high.

My Granddad has tolled me stories like that from when he was a kid in Mid Wales back in the 30s, that was a regular occurrence back then. This winter half the schools in Shropshire were closed down one day just because the weather forecast said there mite be some snow in places

 

[shocks]

we just have an entire generation that have no idea how to cope with snow...

 

[Eric_Methven]

Aye, but nowadays the teachers have to drive many miles sometimes just to get to work, the kids too come to school on the school run. We have H&S, litigation and all kinds of legal stuff that makes it easier to just close the school (just in case). Back in the 50s when I was at school, nearly everybody walked to school, even the teachers lived locally. Besides, school was reasonably warm back then compared to home. Not many people had central heating.

Eric