Winter storm

Today, most of us woke up to the "storm that we have been warned about for the past week". Usually, when we have snow, the temperatures are warmer. Not today. Today, we are sitting at -18C and, with the wind, it feels much colder. Our airport is closed... we are receiving warnings to stay off the roads... the radio is broadcasting activity and church service cancellations. Good thing we don't have to go anywhere ;)

Happy Sunday! Stay warm... and cosy ;) xox

When I woke up this morning....

Andreas heading to karate class... luckily just down the street from us!

Even the snowman doesn't look happy ;)

Snow day!

It came our way :(

I know that it would be a dream to have a warm, green winter. I know better... after all, I AM Canadian. I grew up here... BUT, for a moment, I was hoping that our green winter would stay a green winter.

Flash forward to today.... we have at least 20cm of snow on the ground and more is coming. Snow on top of ice. Snow on top of ice with super strength winds... Snow on top of ice with super strength winds and helping neighbours out of their driveways... or into driveways.... getting out of the way of the snow ploughs.... IT IS FREAKING TERRIBLE! I guess that I shouldn't complain too much because, after all, this is the remnant of a storm that started in Texas. They got the full brunt and we got the leftovers....

As for now, I took the dogs for a walk and am now decidedly home-bound.... with a glass of wine.... Cheers xox

Ice storm

We had lots of snow last night, which turned into rain today. Problem is that the temperature was supposed to go up to 6 degrees C but it didn't get above -1! There is ice absolutely everywhere; the roads are a skating rink and everything is covered with a layer of ice... including all the trees and power lines! A similar thing happened here in 1998 (on January 4 as well... imagine!) and many people were without electricity for over a month. The city shut down for a good week... very strange to be walking downtown Montreal and it looking like a ghost town! Here is a brief trailer for a National Geographic documentary about the storm:

Anyway, although around 92,000 are without power now in Québec, I hope that it won't get any worse. It is still raining.... ugh! Bummer is that the holidays are now over and we will all be stuck in the morning traffic, sliding along ;) Welcome to Canadian weather! Wish us luck!!!

Here are some photos from today:

Lots of rain

There was lots of rain today. Oliver and I took advantage of the weather and sat outside to watch the storm come in. It got really dark, really fast but we had fun watching the rain and- excitement- thunder/lightning! This was, according to Oliver, so cool. The big boys preferred to play video games ;) According to Nicka and Alexander, video games are WAY cooler....

Oliver's photographic work ;)

Dark sky coming in

Mission: Rainy day = play with Lego. Apparently this is me ;) Cool!