A foot of snow - and we don't blink - On Sunday we had roughly a foot of snow... 31.something centimeters to be a bit more precise... and while New York and Washington may be shut down by half this much snow, here it was just another day. I fired up the snowblower to clear our driveway and then we went out for breakfast with some friends. Good old Air Subaru again proved to have no issue with our unplowed streets. (Although given that it has about a 9.5 inch clearance and there was more than 10 inches of snow on the ground when we went out, it was getting close to the limit.)

Part of the reason why it's no big deal is simply that we as a city are ready for this type of thing. Here's what the paper reports as the complement of Ottawa snow equipment:

155 salt spreaders
62 plows
91 graders
74 sidewalk plows
21 snowblowers

Add to that the 350+ very large dump trucks that are being used to cart away snow from the streets... and you have quite the team to fight the storms. By the way, those 21 snowblowers aren't the homeowner kind - they are the big mammoth size-of-large-dump-truck kind that load all the snow into the dump trucks.

Just another day in the Great White North!