As I was pulling into our parking lot at work this morning, I noticed a hint of something poking out of the snow-covered ground near my parking spot. I stopped short of the snow-covered object, got out of the car and retrieved it. It was a little dirty and damp, but no one had driven [...]
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To answer my own question from yesterday, I saw one (1) snow plow today! However, it didn’t appear near our workplace until 5:15 PM. The good thing is that it did two rounds. I don’t think it helped much, as there was plenty of black ice forming after it left (they forgot to spray sand!). [...]
I decided to drive a FWD car to work today. It didn’t help much. Roads were still slippery today, especially intersections. Black ice was plentiful. The smell of burnt rubber was in the air. I didn’t see a single snow plow during my commute this morning and this evening. The local paper reported that the [...]
It all started at 7:57 this morning. I took a peek outside. No cars. Over a foot of snow (44 cm to be exact). Tentative probability of work today: 0%. I walked downstairs to text message a few of my buddies from work. The response was expected: ‘No, I’m not going in.’ I debated and [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, western BC was hit with a powerful storm that knocked out power to over 100,000 households and businesses. We were one of them. Thankfully, our utility power was restored almost 21 hours after it was cut on Wednesday afternoon (12:20 PM in my system logs), but that left us with no heat [...]
I mentioned that statement at work a couple of months ago. A co-worker looked up and said, “Please don’t say that.” Well, it’s true. With the recent housing boom in Abbotsford, we’ve had explosive population growth. With people come vehicles. With vehicles come traffic. With traffic comes congestion. Congestion leads to frustrated drivers. Frustrated drivers [...]
I just got back from the CIS mentorship meeting a couple of hours ago. It went well, but I must admit I felt a bit out of place being the youngest person there. Nevertheless, it was a good opportunity to meet everyone involved in the program, especially after communicating via e-mail for a couple of [...]