Extreme Weather in Toronto 2022

[@richardwhatton1249]

Glad you made it home safely Elin. Kind regards, Richard

[@peterkaliszek6308]

Well deserved wine break after a frustrating day! Home Sweet Home! 😀

[@leewilliams4541]

What a great way to finish a day of adventures in the snow!

[@uweziegenbein3114]

That’s an stylish finish! What ever a day looks like… enjoy 😉

[@Mr1300SKIPPY]

Seeing the conclusion, I will also drink a glass of red wine to your health ! All the best Elin ;-)

[@charlesbaker4508]

My parents live in Ancaster and got close to 40cm. I looked at the radar and Windsor Ontario was getting it and I live in Chelsea MI about 40 miles west of Windsor and we got absolutely no snow. It went around us to the south and hammered you guys! Glad you made it home safely!

[@davebarron5939]

Bummer, good ole winter, hasn't changed in my 60 years. Here in MI. we have had the usual extreme cold but lucky no "Alberta Clippers" so far this year. I just hope it doesn't last till May like last year. Wish you well.

[@garymallard4699]

We got a Winter storm too today in Manitoba...less severe but schools are closed ( we live in rural so boys are staying home )...take care and hope you get HOME!! We are only getting 10 - 15 Cm of snow...luckily...but high winds are forecast up to 80 cm gusts... Good Luck

[@garymallard4699]

Winter Tires and AWD make life easier on those rare Snow days... Glad your Home

[@michaeltutty1540]

Who needs all wheel drive? My 1990 Volvo 240 celebrated 32 years in the family by driving from Barrie to Toronto and back in that storm yesterday. No trouble at all, just a bit slow.

[@garymallard4699]

@@michaeltutty1540 i got a Volvo too 2007 C30 as well as a Ford AWD and a Jeep AWD and 2 2WD vehicles....depends on how you drive..where u drive and how much snow .. i spent 50+ years driving with 2 WD cars/trucks and years up North on the Winter Roads in Manitoba ....i said those HELP...LOL

[@garymallard4699]

@@michaeltutty1540 are you a Professor too??

[@BruceBoschek]

Perfect end to a not-so-perfect day! Glad you are safe and had a bottle of wine to enjoy. Prost!

[@RustyBeauties]

Prost! :)

[@FstopPicturesByAlunDavies]

Worst blizzard was in 77 my. Dads fiat 1975 124 was one of the only. Cars with a trunk of Kitty litter 84 was the one I remember

[@michaeltutty1540]

I had a medical appointment at Women's College Hospital yesterday at 10am. I left home in Barrie at 7:45. At 9:10 I was just south of Highway 7 when the appointment was cancelled. Off at Finch, north on Weston to 7, and back across to the 400, then home. I was back in Barrie shortly after 11. I had no problem plowing through what ever was on the ground. I was not driving an all wheel drive, nor even front wheel drive. Yesterday marked 32 years my old car has been in the family. In all those winters and over 600,000 kilometers, the old Volvo 240 has been a trouper. Arthur has never been stuck, and just keeps going and going.

[@RustyBeauties]

Yeah, they don't make them like this anymore. 600,000k....Amazing For me the snow was not a problem. I plowed through some pretty deep banks overcoming blocked cars on 404.... But then I hit 401 and there was no way out of there...

[@johnnorth9355]

I visited Toronto several times in the 1980's on business - the company always seemed to send me in winter. Snow never seemed to stop the city with good clearance systems and everyone wearing snow tyres on their vehicles. What has changed ? That snow does not even look deep ? Flying out was always interesting with a rapid de-ice followed by a fast taxi to a freshly ploughed runway. Ignorance was bliss ! Stay safe and keep warm Elin.

[@RustyBeauties]

It is still like that normally. They catch the snowflakes mid air :) It was just unusual snowfall. My country looks like this even after 2-3 cm of snow :)

[@nicktomasi392]

Wow! A well deserved rest in front of the fireplace. All you need now is a bearskin rug! LOL

[@RustyBeauties]

That’s what she said 😂

[@Afrodizyak47]

Elin, you are welcome to keep the snow and cold. The entire week here in Perth, Western Australia. it is from 39 deg C>41. I'm out in the shed working on the race car lol

[@garymallard4699]

i live in Central Canada just west of Winnipeg , Manitoba...it is warmer now..only Minus Teens to 20's but was Minus 50 a week or so ago...usually Minus 30 to 40's here 3 to 4 months...and snow for 6 months ...less snow since the 80's but same weather ( temps )... our highway closes quickly with winds or snow blowing....we live in rural area and drive to schools or work...Elin lives East Canada and near the Lakes so they get warmer weather but these Storms can hit still...we used to get big Blizzards out here...but cycles of weather are giving us less snowfall

[@marksbikeexports5123]

Yes, but you also have Australians

[@mikehoroho8453]

You're lucky you didn't have to go through the blizzard of 78. After the 3 days of pure whiteout conditions we were able to go outside. There were drifts 8 to 10 feet high all over northern Indiana. It was incredible. I could walk up onto my uncle's house. Drift behind his home were as high as the race on the roof.

[@57kevy33]

we had the same weather of 1978 in southern Ontario had to shovel down to open the doors of my 914 couldnt see anything out the sides as the plows left piles higher than the car

[@mikehoroho8453]

@@57kevy33 yeah, there were miles of drifts all over the Midwest including Ontario. Somewhere I have a photo of one of our county roads that is a path with a snowplow and the drifts are about two feet higher than the top of the plow on each side. Plus it's that way as far as you can see down the road.

[@timmarsh6754]

How do stay so cheerful? Most people would have been pretty fed up with that day! Good for you. Glad you got home safe and sound.

[@omphaloskeptic4989]

I suggest you take the time with the family and enjoy the winter wonderland! What the heck, go out with the family into the yard and build a SNOWMANchanic and send him into your workplace! lol

[@pda49184]

We very rarely get these sort of snowfalls here in the UK. But I have as nasty feeling that when it's finished with you over there, it's going to pop across the pond and give us a bit of grief here.. Typical of the UK, we are totally underequipped to deal with it.. Batten down the hatches !

[@MrWaalkman]

I worked in Brampton, Ontario during the winter of '92 IIRC. Not a lot of snow, but I remember it getting down to -62F with the wind chill factor. The "People Shredders" (turnstile gates) at the Chrysler plant froze up and we couldn't leave. That didn't stop the Canadians. They hopped the fence, with security yelling at them over the PA that they wouldn't be allowed back in, and they were out of there. I believe that it was a hockey night...

[@RustyBeauties]

LOL

[@kevelliott]

Makes me nostalgic for the snowy winters we used to get here in the UK....

[@RustyBeauties]

I wouldn't miss winter if it suddenly disappeared :)

[@watchmedraw4340]

Oshawa here. Well they stil havent plowed our complex here lol.

[@rickdaniel8478]

Elin, don't eat the yellow snow ! It's not lemon snow cone 😜🤣🤪 lol.

[@RustyBeauties]

Funny you said that. My dog pooped somewhere and I couldn't find it in the deep snow. But then when I was snowblowing it looks like the $#IT hit the fan LOL So, don't eat the brown snow either LOL

[@alien_may]

What a horrible highway omg 😲. I was stuck in my house for two days. It was freaking out and crazy 🤪 but I was better than you cuz I could use washroom anyway. Thanks for sharing your video.

[@robertmorales391]

Crazy.. wow,, no snow in miami..

[@billa2967]

Sorry for your fate! I have been stuck, a few times here in Kentucky, also in Washington state, Oregon, and once in Wyoming, I was trapped for 3 days! Fortunately, I made it to Rock Springs WY, and was able to get a hotel room, for double their normal rate! We received about 5 or 6 inches of snow here, Sunday. I love looking at the snow, when I have nowhere to go, but other than that, I hate it!

[@MisplacedAmerican]

I was born in Wyoming, so glad not to see the snow like that on a commute anymore (granted not much commuting going on during Covid here in the UK but... Hey ho). When I miss the snow like that, I pour some crushed ice down my shirt and look at a blank sheet of printing paper... Elin is on the right track, have a beer and watch a movie (Jiffy Pop, here we go!)

[@coom0004]

As a matter of interest how much do u pay for an awesome house like that rent?

[@MrWaalkman]

All that snow (and especially the snow piles created by the plows in the parking lots) reminds me of Colorado, and why I don't live in Colorado anymore. For those who aren't fortunate enough to have AWD or 4WD, here's a trick that's got me out of more than one tight spot. For front wheel drive cars, let about half of the air out of your tires and drive around on them until you get to either a clear road, or to where you are heading. And then pump the tires back up. Almost as good as wearing chains (and a heck of a lot easier to deal with than chains). BTW, I've never tried this with a real wheel drive car. Once you get to a clear road, use the air compressor that you had the foresight to bring with you to pump the tires back up. Along with the compressor, be sure to replace the fuse for the cigarette lighter with a circuit breaker beforehand. Be advised that you can ruin your tires this way. And you can go too far and bust the bead off of the rim. Either way, I won't be purchasing a new set of tires for you. But if the alternative is freezing to death... It got us off of Land's End road in Colorado in the winter. When my son and I got back to my parents house, I told them where we had been, and that we had to get ourselves unstuck. My mother was pretty upset and asked "What kind of an idiot are you?" My response was, "Well, genetically speaking..." :) It also got me through the the great ice storm of '96 in Alabama. I-65 was shutdown for a couple of days after that one (I made it to Tennessee on Hwy 31. Basically a 100 mile long sheet of ice). As ice storms in Alabama goes, they've had worse (11 inches of ice in '85). Land's End road: motorcyclecolorado.com/blog/lands-end-road-a-great-ride-if-youre-ok-with-gravel/

[@gordonblank6845]

I’m glad I don’t live in “snow” country. Greeting from Arizona 🤓 1st post 🎉🥳

[@kennolan1219]

AWD is the only way to drive, pity Triumph didn’t have one in production. Drive safely.

[@cheftush]

How was the Lincoln in the snow?

[@RustyBeauties]

Phew.... There are no obstacles for this car. I am really pleased with it.

[@cheftush]

@@RustyBeauties and to think when you bought it you didn’t know it was all wheel drive 😉

[@RustyBeauties]

@@cheftush I know right. It was a little like your truck. Didin't have time to ask questions :)

[@tonypinker2884]

I bet your happy your not driving a rusty beauty at the moment

[@RustyBeauties]

I have a 4x4 Rusty Beauty. It wouldn't have been a bad idea too.

[@tonypinker2884]

@@RustyBeauties Yes I noticed the Jeep when you drove into your driveway lol

[@jamessimmons8352]

Stay safe.

[@ceesklumper]

There's still room here in Southern California ....

[@achmadosman9807]

There are one or two downsides to living in the Artic. 😊

[@michaeltutty1540]

My brother DOES live in the Arctic, or near enough. He is north-west of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Sometimes an Air lift is the only way to get out of town

[@rpeterson223]

How can I be a good backseat driver if you don’t turn the wipers on so I can see better……?

[@RustyBeauties]

Believe me they were on, but frozen.... Not much help

[@Andrewcc.]

Sorry Elin, I'm just back from having a swim.

[@RustyBeauties]

I will respond in 6 months LOL

[@matuyenmientay]

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[@dboyette42]

LOL you guys act like its never snowed in Canada before.

[@RustyBeauties]

Well, it never got me stuck in my car for 7 hours….

[@graycav56]

Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow!

[@garymallard4699]

TIP OF THE DAY Don't Eat Yellow SNOW!!