Canadian Winter Chaos

A longer one
Sitting in the train this morning. Yesterday was our first snowstorm chaos. I left the office at about 8:50 PM, got to the terminus on time (the bus was supposed to leave at 8:58, but it only arrived at the terminus at 9:13), but there was a looooong line up. I have never ever seen this at that time of day, and only rarely, even at rush hour… wow…

On top of that, the bus took took a long detour to another bridge (I heard of delays of up to 5 hours to go home on a route that usually takes less than an hour with regular traffic). So I got to my car in the bus terminus parking at about 10:20 (the bus ride is usually 15-20 minutes top, and this time, for one of the very rare occasions, of course, I was standing up, no seats left, of course, and thus no writing, whether for you or for my novel, ho well..). I then took a few minutes to scrape off the ice and snow off my car, and then a few more just to get out of the parking lot… ‘cause… ‘cause… I’m dumb…

But to my defense, I will state that I got home pretty late on Monday night (guess why? ;-), and had to get up very early Tuesday morning, because our office was sponsoring an innovation in technology interest group breakfast (or something like) so I had to be at the office before 8AM. So I didn’t get check the weather and didn’t think twice before choosing which car I would use… stooooopid…

My Mazda RX8 is not made for the Canadian winters… Ho… I do have winter tires, of course, otherwise, I would still be in the parking lot this morning… But my little toy is not very high above the ground, and the parking lot had not been cleaned yet… D’Ho…

But anyway, I eventually got out of there, and the highways were pretty clean, but still, I was being careful and didn’t really benefited from all the advantages of owning a nice car like this… When I got to the last turn to my street… Ho no… They had not cleaned it up yet… Damn… though… There always is a bright side… I had less snow to remove from my drive way, ya know… But… I got stuck twice… In the middle of the street… A few 100 meters from my home… Câlisse…

Anyway, I finally got home a little after 11:00, and took a few attempts for my little baby to climb up the little slope of my driveway (after spending 10-15 minutes to remove the snow from there, of course), up the to the garage where it belongs in those rough Canadian winter days… You can bet, that this morning, I took the Murano (though it had about a feet of snow on it, and about a centimeters of ice to top it off, though it was fun to break the ice crust with nice fluffy snow underneath it :-)… Was almost tempted to take the clean and warm RX8 that slept in the garage…

Talking about sleeping… I got woken up by my kids this morning, even though they were with their mom… they called me at 7:15, to double check if their school was opened, they didn’t believe their mom… Aren’t they sweet?... Though I was sleeping so tight, ‘cause you can guess that I couldn’t get to sleep right when I got home, I was all wet and sweaty and full of adrenaline, so I had a beer, watched the tube a bit and did some email (I know, I’m addicted to email) so I didn’t get to sleep until about 1AM… Ho well… I love those kids anyway... Of course…

And even the winter weather… OK, yes, it caused chaos yesterday… Ho! BTW, GG had a lucky bad luck event yesterday. She had a little accident with her car on the way to work. Nothing serious, no injuries and no damage to the car (fortunately), just the towing fees and some scare. So she worked from home… Talk about a lucky bad luck ;-)

And looking outside the train window this morning… It is simply gorgeous. Ice rain can create such marvelous landscape. Even dead trees look nice this morning. There is an field close to the train tracks crossing highway 30 where many trees have been dead for many years. It usually looks like a scary swamp as we see in movies… But this morning… It looks great… See… We can find beauty everywhere, even in the result of a chaotic snowy/ice storm…

Ho… Talking about beauty… I should get my eyes off the laptop screen and see if I can also find some interesting landscape within the train, not just through the windows ;-)…

Have a good one!

BYE
MAD