". . . Don’t move to Winnipeg. Manitoba. Winter daytime lows of -40 C are common. Then add the wind chill. "
Bull !! Olde farts tale !
My hometown of Portage la Prairie is only 50 miles west of the 'Peg. And it is not that bad
Left here for xmas holidays and found that manitoba had a third of the snow than here. Temps were not that bad at all during the 3 wks i was home visiting. My sister told me that it was a good thing I was spending a longer than normal trip bk. home in Manitoba instead of here in Cowtown (aka calgary) !!
Actually I would have moved back to Man. after being laid-off in 2000, but mosquitoes/ fear of quaranteed vandalism due to negative personalities within “urban reserves” (read similiar to “the low-income projects” of the u.s.a. / 4-6" of snow all winter after the annual big dump, so not at all conducive to GR hobby. Unless a person had a two-storey large bldg one lvel for lvg space and second for a indoor layout ! This keeps me here although this yr overall winter here has been really not better than central Canada aka Manitoba.
Also Minn. along with the Dakotas (south of Manitoba) were getting their ass’ kicked over the holidays the IS down into N.D. was actually closed for a couple days Up in Man. we were moving round like it was still fall or late spring ! Even the fools without winter tires on.
The first time lucky to take in a ECLSTS’01, the first couple days of the trip were great seeing PA by staying off the Interstates and subsequently driving the old hwys Harrisburg—Gettysburg—Altoona—Strasburg—York(show) —Harrisburg 10 days
By the 4th day I was thinking this is very narssistic (sp?) according the weather maps on the supper newscasts and via the weatherchannel the world ends at the border of the continental u.s. If the chinese had not jumped an alleged u.s. spy ship at the time, there would have been no news nor weather outside the borders ! Even then it was of the ocean 'roudn where the ship was being held. When ya travel to the u.s.a. you go dark regards world current affairs excluding maybe now with bodycounts in iran or afghan’n although that may not cont as it is u.s. only !! Soooo by 7th day I decided u.s.a. a fine place to visit for maybe 10 days but beyond that like being a tibetan monk on a mtn. And he would know more about Canada and the rest of the world, from what is “blowing in on the wind”.
Here only a lite skiff of snow perfect for a snowplow special, alas i did not walk the r/w last wk before it again went below 0c during the day otherwise i would have seen 3 remaining patches of snow that melted and now refroze. Stuff i don’t dare touch for fear of breaking trackage. Mid-december majority of RBR r/w was under like 20’ of snowpack (1:29) till the big melt arrived 2 wks ago !
doug c
a proud PlaPian ! also where the CN/cp mainlines cross over at grade, similiar sit’ as rochelle, ill. but shamefully not developed in PlaP for the railfan ! oh, oh a cold front has moved south again for a week, must be that texan front moving easterly that is sucking down the cold front . . . .
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/mb-29_metric_e.html#detailsf
