love the white stuff...

Finally!!! There's snow on the ground and we only had to wait for February. The thing that I find amazing is the media coverage of this so called "storm". We got less than 25 cm in Tortonto. Every city and town surrounding TO got pummelled. Yet, they close schools, shut down businesses and collectively, it seems, everyone with a car forgets how to drive in winter.
They were showing a guy covering the weather on a local station that reminded me of the reporters in the US preparing people for Katrina. The guy actually had a ruler to demonstrate how deep 7-8 cm of snow is and how deceptively dangerous it can be. Sure he may have a point, it can be dangerous but so can hot soup if you've never tried it before. In a country where summer is a quick little flash point between the beginning and end of winter, shouln't we already be aware of this danger. I think we are.
Being from Montreal originally, this seems...strange. What we just got in Toronto is a snow fall. Not a storm, not a white out, a regular, average dump. No more no less. I use Montreal as reference of course because that's where I grew up but I know for a fact that most other cities across the country deal with the same thing. Some more some less but 15-20 cm of snow in one shot is not considered a blizzard or a storm anywhere else in Canada but Toronto. Why is that? Fair enough TO gets less snow than Montreal or anywhere on the east coast on average. We don't see this much accumulation normally but holy shit people!!! Chill the fuck out. It's snow.
This is what the rest of the country calls winter, with the exception of the west coast...Oh wait..Vancouver got more snow than we did didn't they?
Whatever...the company I work for shut their doors because of the "storm" so I get a snow day. Yay!