I managed to stay ahead of the road closures (I’m not completely stupid).
That said, there’s something to be said for having completed several seasons of winter driving training in a 289 ’65 Mustang. It never completely wears off.
#SKStorm photos and video.
Still no improvement at 2:15 pm Jan 31 #skstorm at Kindersley pic.twitter.com/ndxTKkCuon
— Jenny Hagan LostInSk (@LostInSk) January 31, 2022
Journalist: “how long do you plan on staying in Ottawa?”
Trucker: “uh just two weeks to flatten the curve”
So-called journalists
Alleged journalists
Less trustworthy than a buzzard guarding your sandwich.
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I suspect he thought that the map was trucker blockades instead of it being the effects of global warming. Is Al Gore visiting Regina, by any chance?
Please please please bring the pain to Ottawa, Toronto, all of urban Ontario
I’m in Ottawa and I want to see all the reflexive liberal voters around me face a famine.
GLOBULL WARMING!! Make it stop!
EV’s/ ICE’s….now that’s a really tough choice. Ya right!
Its a storm alright, skidsteer is greased and ready to go once this blows over. Saw pics of heavy truck accidents, just stay put and ride this one out would be prudent.
That includes the truckers in Ottawa…no sense driving into this storm!
Carbon tax will fix that right up for ya!
It was a ‘76 Firebird for me. 350 big block, standard, positrac and fat tires. I could get stuck on level ground in the winter if I wasn’t careful.
74 Gran Torino…..that big beast, with boots on the back, wasn’t that bad in the snow.
Lotsa weight, lotsa traction. Land yachts had a little value.
Had a nice big back seat too. Best car ever….for that……ah to be 18 again!
Land yachts had a place had a 77 olds tornado triple black 455ci best car I ever drove in the snow would go further than any two wheel drive pickup and great seats
I hear you, you’re talkin’ my language. ’72 Gran Torino Fastback here. Whata beast! Thankfully, (I guess), the wrecking yard snuffs out that life phase. Dang!
Buddy also had a ’72 Gran Torino Sport with a 429 & slush box, with a tall rear gear. Wouldn’t burn much rubber, but that sucka had long legs. I don’t know that we ever found out its top end. It was 130+.
Same with Dad’s 1976 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale with 455…never found the top end on a straight road.
“Trucker standoff with SWAT Team at Montana-Alberta border…”
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trucker-standoff-with-swat-team-at-montana-alberta-border/
I know what you’re dealing with, Kate. I’m still travelling back and forth between Edmonton and my house in B. C.
Days before each road trip (thanks to Prinz Dummkopf, who’s forbidden me from flying), I check the travel conditions, often anxiously. I have no intention of ending up in the ditch or becoming an accident statistic, even though my truck is 4WD.
In 1986 I learned to drive in a 69 olds Cutlass supreme and a 72 Toyota Carolla.
Both with by todays standards questionable tires And by todays standards those are questionable cars lol. My kids have anti lock breaks traction control and winter tires(the second born even has studded) on their 12 and 14 year old cars.
I am sure it’s made me a better driver. I came home from the north today. Arrived in toon town around 2ish. Terrible from just north of Hague. But a Suburu supplied as a company vehicle and Good-Year Winter Command tires ( I do not get commission but you should buy them) I made it home safe.
Thanks Kate. I can see you driving sideways (to the right) in a mustang grinning and hoping not to hit the street light
I was in our Chev 4wd crew cab today. Lots of room to sleep in the back if need be. Was really trying to avoid that, it would have been one long, cold night out there.
My parents “sold” us their ’79 Olds Cutlass after our third offspring arrived and the Datsun was getting crowded. It was a hog on gas and drove like a boat, but would haul our wee trailer and all our gear out to our favourite campsite every summer. We kept it going as the offsprings reached “learning to drive” age, though we had acquired another vehicle. The Olds was theirs, as it was so un-cool that none of their buds would be seen in it unless said buds were desperate for a ride home.
Glad you made it safely.
It can feel so good to get home.
The beauty of those old cars, I had a ’75 Bel-Air, is you could actually hook on to them somewhere to pull them out if you had to. Tonight on the way home from the rink I stopped and helped a crew trying to get an Audi out of a snowbank that had blown across the road. Lots of shovelling and pushing and an inexperienced driver (sigh…). We got it out but I don’t even mention that I have a tow strap anymore for new cars.
Snow in Canada, who’d a thunk it?
Balmy four degrees C in beautiful Point Edward Ontario, might have to take out the 550 super sport for a ride. Oh and I used to have a nifty little 66 notch back rangoon red. I miss that little car.