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DANGER! DANGER! Rainfall Warning in Effect for Toronto - March 4, 2011 (pg. 2)
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| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
How is Ontario so bad at dealing with weather? Every time I've driven to Toronto when it's been snowing it's like as soon as you cross the border, snow plows and salt don't exist.
It's Canada ffs. How can you be so bad at dealing with snow? |
The army is tied up in the middle east... |
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| Swamper |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
How is Ontario so bad at dealing with weather? Every time I've driven to Toronto when it's been snowing it's like as soon as you cross the border, snow plows and salt don't exist.
It's Canada ffs. How can you be so bad at dealing with snow? |
I don't know about that stretch of highway from the border but Toronto has had exceptional snow clearing logistics in place since 2000... the city learned it's lesson in that regard on January 12, 1999. |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
I don't know about that stretch of highway from the border but Toronto has had exceptional snow clearing logistics in place since 2000... the city learned it's lesson in that regard on January 12, 1999. |
Well I'm not sure about the actual city, but pretty much the entire highway (not sure what it's called) and then the QEW all the way into Toronto was awful. People driving right on top of the striped lines because no plows had gone through at all.
In the city too, at least on the Esplanade, which was where my hotel was, the roads were pretty bad right around there as well, even in the morning after it had stopped snowing. |
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| Euphorica |
last night caught most off guard I think....
they jsut kept yappin about rain rain..so all the plow drivers were at guv n when it started to come down.
that said, this side of the lake gets next to no snow compared to the other side. |
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| srussell0018 |
| I guess that's a good point. I tend to think the same general climate=the same amount of snowfall. Still, I'd think a city the size of Toronto, especially a city that far north would have the capability of quickly and effectively removing and dealing with snow. I mean Rochester only has around 800,000 people and we could get a foot of snow overnight and still have clear roads in the morning on the way to work. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
I guess that's a good point. I tend to think the same general climate=the same amount of snowfall. Still, I'd think a city the size of Toronto, especially a city that far north would have the capability of quickly and effectively removing and dealing with snow. I mean Rochester only has around 800,000 people and we could get a foot of snow overnight and still have clear roads in the morning on the way to work. |
THAT FAR NORTH....if you were to draw a straight line from Toronto to Rochester it might be just over 100 kms further north. |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
THAT FAR NORTH....if you were to draw a straight line from Toronto to Rochester it might be just over 100 kms further north. |
not only that but toronto is ing huge compared to rochester, obviously it would take longer to clean lol |
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| tobywan |
| Blows my mind how many people fail to alter their driving to the current road conditions. All collisions (they're not accidents) could easily be avoided if people just chilled out, slowed down a few km/h and gave a bit more space. |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
THAT FAR NORTH....if you were to draw a straight line from Toronto to Rochester it might be just over 100 kms further north. |
I meant that far north in comparison to the rest of North America.... :conf: I'm quite aware of the "as the crow flies" distance between Toronto and Rochester. I've seen Rochester from the top of the CN tower before ;)
To Geroin, that's very true, but then they should also be able to afford more plows :tongue2
In terms of driving, obviously people need to alter their driving in poor conditions, but that doesn't excuse a lack of snow removal by the city/county/province/whatever. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
I meant that far north in comparison to the rest of North America.... :conf: I'm quite aware of the "as the crow flies" distance between Toronto and Rochester. I've seen Rochester from the top of the CN tower before ;)
To Geroin, that's very true, but then they should also be able to afford more plows :tongue2
In terms of driving, obviously people need to alter their driving in poor conditions, but that doesn't excuse a lack of snow removal by the city/county/province/whatever. |
Even as part of north america it's still in the Middle....not the Far North. |
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| srussell0018 |
You're splitting hairs. I'm not counting the 95% of Canada's land mass that doesn't even have roads, and taking into consideration the fact that 80% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the US border.
I hear snow removal is a big issue up in Nunavut :tongue2 |
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