Snow in Newfoundland

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From https://globalnews.ca/news/6430558/eastern-newfoundland-and-labrador-reeling-in-the-wake-of-monster-blizzard/

Newfoundland seeks help from Canadian Armed Forces after ‘historic’ blizzard

BY MICHAEL TUTTON AND GIUSEPPE VALIANTE THE CANADIAN PRESS

Posted January 18, 2020 8:51 am
Updated January 18, 2020 10:00 pm

Eastern Newfoundland struggled Saturday to remove record-breaking snowdrifts and searchers combed through a wooded area for a missing man following a blizzard that paralyzed much of the Avalon peninsula.

Christina Smith, 60, a St. John’s, N.L., resident, described the snow piled “up to your neck,” in some areas, as the musician and her husband attempted to clear passages to their home in the Outer Battery area.

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Premier Dwight Ball formally requested assistance from the federal government Saturday, including mobilization of the Armed Forces, to provide relief to areas of the province hit by the storm.

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More at link.

[empedocles]

1. Wow!

[MFM008]

2. So your in there

Until April?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I'm turning up my electric blanket!

[cyclonefence]

4. When I was a child

I used to fantasize about snow so deep I would--as a good Girl Scout--have to tunnel to my neighbors' houses to bring them bread and milk. Too bad I didn't grow up in Newfoundland.

[2naSalit]

7. When I was a kid

in New England, just a little way south, we used to tunnel all over our yard, out to the mailbox and the barn. Sometimes we would make a village, each of us having our own enclosure, imagining that we were Eskimos who lived in igloos... or so the extent of our knowledge led us to think.

In the high country in the Rockies, where I am now, kids are warned not to make their tunnels out into the street so they don't get hurt by snow removal machines. And in some towns, they pile up the snow in the middle of each block making 20 ft piles that are great for kids and dogs to play on, too dense for tunneling.

I like living in places where you can get snowed in for several days, it certainly shapes your life in winter.

[cyclonefence]

8. You don't know

how much my ten-year-old self envies your ten-year-old self.

[zanana1]

5. I hope you like snow. nt

[zanana1]

6. I hope the kids are enjoying their snow day.

Perfect day to play in the snow!