Good day Hiveians,
Two days ago our small community up in the arctic circle of Canada experienced our first blizzard of the year. I do have a few photographs from the blizzard, but I want to highlight is the calm after the storm. Thursday was an absolutely gorgeous day for us. (and today is as well) It also marks the first time we've seen sunshine in several weeks. It's been overcast and foggy here since mid-September.
Standing on the front steps of the middle school, I was able to get some really beautiful shots of the sunrise. It's relatively amusing that sunrise comes after we start work now. And soon sunset will happen while we're still at work. In very short order. But, that will be then and this is now. Enjoy the sun while you get it!
Here is a photo of the snowdrifts behind the Middle School our friend and fellow teacher parks his quad out back and he found a nice path to park in-between the Sea Can and the snowdrift. Which was awesome, because it helps show the scale of how deep the snow is! Average height for quads is about 4 feet, so it shows how fast the snow piled up in our 24 hour storm! For reference, this area was clear of snow the day prior to the storm. Just some ice in the puddle at the bottom. Some places in town have snowdrifts that are over 6 feet tall!
Here is the view from the front of our house. Again, this area had no snow at all the day prior and now look at it! Granted our side didn't get as much snow as the opposite side of the road. Just look below to see how much they built up! Snow plows didn't get out until Thursday morning and they still haven't completely cleared the town. They just made paths "good enough" to get people moving again.
Two views from the midpoint of the storm. These shots were taken at 6am Wednesday, October 13th. Visibility is only a couple hundred meters and the snowdrifts are already too deep to drive a quad/ATV through.
And two shots taken just as the storm was hitting our Island. My friend lives in a cabin along the southern coast of the island some 7 kilometers from town. We hopped on my quad, donned our helmets to survive the driving ice pellets and rode out to her cabin so that she could grab some supplies and hunker down with us in our house for the storm. She's still staying with us, and I think today after work we are going to try to get her home.
We managed to get out to her cabin last night, but it was dark and I couldn't get photos, but the amount of snow around her cabin is totally ludicrous. We can't get the quad anywhere near close to the building and have to walk around 100 meters over snowdrifts 3 feet tall and solid like concrete. I do not envy her and the shoveling she will have to do over the long, long winter months. Also, it's doubly sketchy out there knowing that there are 3 polar bears on the island and the moon isn't above the horizon, so it's darker than dark up here.
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