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Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

545.0. "Big Snowstorm? N.B., P.E.I., & N.S." by WMOIS::LECLAIR_S () Wed Feb 12 1992 16:39

    
    I'm a former citizen of Canada and more specifically of New Brunswick.
    I've been hearing about a real big snow storm in Moncton and also in
    Nova Scotia and P.E.I.  I heard that they got 6 feet in a period of
    a week.  Can someone furnish any more details about this storm?  It
    must have paralized the eastern provinces!  Thanks in advance for any
    information.
    
    Susan 
    
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545.1NS southAPACHE::BROWNWed Feb 12 1992 17:506
    Nova Scotia, in the Yarmouth area got about a foot fo snow..I heard
    that Moncton and St Stevens area got 3-4 feet of snow with 10 ft
    drifts. I would expect that St John's has 2-3 feet and the white stuff
    is glowing around the Nuke Power plant...my guess only.
    
    BB
545.2and how was your vacation?ISOISA::HAKKARAINENAnd then I wrote...Wed Feb 12 1992 18:4414
My wife and I (and dogs Bob and Raye) were on our way to PEI in the middle of
that storm. (It's real tough to get good weather forecasts for the Maritimes in
New England.) We spent Saturday and Sunday at the Bluebird Motel in Sussex, NB
while waiting for the roads to clear and the ferries to run.

From what we saw and read:

Moncton received 161 cm of snow over the weekend of 31-Jan to 2-Feb. Cap Pele 
had rooftop-high drifts. Hurricane force winds (140km/hr+) for most of the 
weekend. My in-laws, on the east end of PEI, were snowed in for three days. We
followed the plow to their house. The Maritimes received another 30-40 cm 
midweek. It was snowing again on Saturday, 8-Feb, when we left, snowing all the
way to Massachusetts. 

545.3let it snowOTOOA::RANKINFri Feb 14 1992 14:165
    I live in Nova Scotia and work out of the Hlaifax office of Digital. We
    had 60 cm of snow , it started on friday evening and ended sunday
    evening. On wednesday we received another 25 cm. Forecast is for more
    snow this weekend , unsure of how much. My poor back can"t take much
    more shoveling.
545.4Snowstorm.CHIPS::DACOSTAFri Feb 14 1992 15:311
    Now you can make good use of those snow bags (107.*) to use. 8^)
545.5top floor?OASS::BURDEN_D'24 Stude - The only way to TourFri Feb 14 1992 19:175
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Have you all moved to the top floor now?  How's the new convention center?

Dave
545.6and one more thing...ISOISA::HAKKARAINENAnd then I wrote...Mon Feb 17 1992 17:276
How is it that so many people are willing to put up with the nonsense of having
the power attachments on the back of those M-F tractors? As we drove along we
saw people clearing 1 km driveways, driving backwards in the snow and the wind
and the cold. One person told me that he had a plow attachment for the front of
his tractor, but he'd have to raise and lower it manually; all of the hydraulics
are in the back.