What the Knuck

seriously, its like 5" of snow, Vancouver fails :|

I’ve had the distinctive pleasure of meeting (mostly online) a great many people from different countries over the last few years, and we all have our little stereotypes or preconceptions about certain foreign lands the we indulge in.  Canada is of course no exception and despite the fact that I live in a pretty mild and temperate area people assume that I spend most of my outdoor time wearing sunglasses to avoid becoming snowblind while Nyuk’tuk and I emerge from our igloo in snowshoes, and wander down to the government liquor store for another bottle of government whiskey.  Not so much.  The fact that I no longer drink and don’t want your pity whiskey anyways, I live in Vancouver.  It rains a lot here.  It’s pretty much like Seattle with less space needles.   And we do not handle snow very well.

I’d go so far actually as to say that we’re pretty much the laughing stock of other Canadian cities as far as winter goes.   As I write this, it’s about 3 pm and a good number of my staff have already left to brave the streets home, and we don’t actually close until 4:30.  I don’t blame them, the driving conditions are appalling by all accounts, bridges gridlocked, slick roads, inexperienced drivers and poor selection in tires.   But for the love of god can we please get some fucking sand and salt trucks going on out there?  Maybe some plows?  For fuck sakes it’s Canada, in the wintertime, and mild climate or not you reckon you’d have thought of these things.

I’m not worried, I have good tires and 4×4 (and unlike the automatic SUV soccer moms in their explorers wondering why their 4×4 light on the dash does not seem to bring them to a stop as quickly as they anticipated, or like, at all, I know how to use it) and may even make some cash towing people out of the ditch tonight with mah trusty tow cable.   But seriously guys, it snowed last year, did we learn nothing?

- Nick