Pobphoto: Our first snow day out East 🇨🇦

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The snow is still falling … kids got a snow day.

The buses aren’t running….

Winter has arrived

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Lol I always get a kick out of Ontarios first snow day, half my family is from Ontario and you guys have school MD bus closures annually lol, in Alberta there will be school busses full of kids stuck and threats from all parents "do not date tell me it's too cold, you're going to school".

Maybe the snow is more wet with the humidity there as it's dry up here in AB, it just is funny to me when I see the busses aren't running, that's never happened here in my life, the public would be shocked even at -40 in a blizzard if they busses stopped.

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Well… we get freezing rain here out East and the roads are covered in Ice. We actually play ice hockey on our driveway. I have posted many videos of our driveway hockey games…. So yeah the buses will not drive on a skating rink.

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I have never experience freezing rain, must be interesting to see.

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They are pretty deadly. We lose a lot of trees and power lines to heavy freezing rain. A few years ago millions of trees were taken down with heavy ice from freezing rain .

... In January of 1998 a major ice storm affected an extensive area of forest across eastern Canada, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Altogether, ice loading stripped branches from trees and broke off portions of crowns in nearly 10.1 million hectares of forests (Winship and Smallidge 1998, Miller-Weeks and Eager 1999, Hopkin et al. 2003, Kraemer and Nyland 2010. After the storm, Kraemer and Nyland (2010) reviewed an extensive body of literature dealing with the effects from previous ice loading as well as some early reports following what happened during this 1998 storm. ...
... According to Hopkin et al. (2003), annual stand mortality averages 2% to 3% under normal conditions in an eastern Ontario forest. Busing (2005) for the Appalachians, and Parker et al. (1985) for an old-growth oak forest in Indiana, respectively, reported levels at about 0.7% and 0.9% annual loss. ...
... But based on observations among stands affected by an ice storm, the probability of mortality has appeared related to degree of crown loss and the amount of foliage remaining on affected trees (Rhoads et al. 200, Kraemer andNyland 2010, Turcotte et al. 2012). In fact, Hopkin et al. (2003) proposed that mortality seemed likely after crown loss of between 75% and 100%. ...

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269743859_Ice_storm_damage_to_eastern_Ontario_forests_19982001

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You just can't beat photos of those red chairs in the snow... can you ?

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Not really. Maybe I need to build a little shack with a red roof and a red door too.

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Anything red is always beautiful in the snow. My Mom painted the tops of the bird houses that are on posts around her yard red and an outdoor swing. It all looks nice every season, but in the snow, it is pretty special.

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