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December 19, 2008
Snowmageddon
Toronto has been hit by seven or eight inches of snow. The National Post is live blogging*, Global has a handy storm watch site including a live video news feed as I type these words.
* From whence this snow plow game.
Related: How to shovel now without breaking your back. A variety of advice: What to do if you are in an accident, how to drive in a blizzard, what your emergency kit should contain and how to control a skid.
Visuals: Four Flickr images sets lifted from the National Post: First Storm 2, Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree, Xmas Toronto Snow Storm and Snowmageddon 2008.
The end of the world: A society with too little to complain about decides to be outraged at the term snowmageddon.
Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips acknowledged many people found the term — which became the most popular term internationally on Twitter and inspired a series of ‘‘I survived snowmageddon 2008” t-shirts — overblown.
Mr. Phillips said he knows which of his co-workers first coined the term in a press release, and called it an “appropriate” way to describe the massive winter storm that walloped southern Ontario today and the two more snow dumps that are expected this week. But he would not tell us his name.
It's Snowmageddongate!
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 05:58 PM
Comments
How to drive in a blizzard, lesson 1: Stay home.
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at December 19, 2008 07:47 PM
Step 1: Quit day job at physically isolated suburban hospital.
Step 2: Take job teaching a ten minute walk from home.
Step 3: Schedule Snowmageddon for after the end of term. Commute consists of opening door to the deck, looking outside at snow, closing door again.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 19, 2008 07:50 PM
Al Gore is in Toronto?
Posted by: dpatten at December 19, 2008 09:42 PM