No messing around

So, the ground has been relatively white since the end of October - but we have gotten very little cumulative snow. In well over a month, we have had no more than a centimetre or two. However, this is no way has slowed down the road work that takes place all winter long.

I have the impression that there are conditions particular to the temperature and the type of snow that we get that are different from Ottawa and require different road clearing techniques. For instance, leaving any snow

around at all, especially if it has been driven on and tracked will ensure it stays like that, frozen all winter. No thaw, no chance to fix. At least that is why I think I have been warned to get rid of the snow, any snow.

Yet still, when I came wheeling around the corner to our street this week, I was surprised to see an enormous pile of snow and ice resting in the middle - and was very glad to have been going slow enough to miss it!

As I mentioned, we haven't had any accumulation for weeks, but this has not prevented the city from scraping down to the core. Frankly, it kind of makes the streets like ice rinks, but they sure are smooth.