theflamanguy
New member
January 10, 2007
I've never had a snow day before but this is the day it happened! Saskatchewan is rich in history of stories of Blizzards. Talk to any old timer and they'll reminise about the winter of '55, or how about '82 etc. Well I'll tell you, my day started out fairly normal as I got out of bed, brushed my teeth etc. and proceeded to drive to work. It was windy, the visibility was poor, about 100', and snowing. Within my 8 mile drive to work from out of town somewhere around the half way point the wind roared and the highway disappeared. The vehicles started showing up out of nowhere and so began the tidious task of arriving at work in one piece. I arrived at work without a scrape, but I can tell you a lot of people did'nt! At one point I was thinking of ditching it just to get off the highway and make sure that none of the other brave souls (or Idiots) who made the same trek as I did would not run into the back end of me. This was about 9 in the morning. There were about 10 out of the 20 staff that made it to work that day, some with and some without their cars. One of the staff thought he saw the approach to our shop and when he went to make his turn he hit the ditch...on the WRONG side of the road. I know, explain it to me too! We all grew closer that day as the storm raged on and not a soul came into the shop. Although we did recieve a few phone calls and some people from only 120 miles away could not believe their ears, as they told us that the sun was shining on them! We all hunkered down in the shop around 2 and started to chat it up in front of some spot heaters, (oh yeah, we have Geo Thermal heating at the shop and 2 of the boilers were down so the building was continuing to cool down). It was around 6 that some of us realized that we could kinda see the cars in the parking lot and around 7 we could see them all, but that was it, anything past the parking lot you could'nt see. But we decided to make the arduous and dangerous task of going home to our loved ones. At least those of who made it home! I also forgot to mention that the Police shut down the city around 2. All major accesses and highways were officially closed.
Here is a link to some video and lots of photos that were taken during and after the storm the following day
http://www.ckom.com/index.php?p=bzyourview
I've never had a snow day before but this is the day it happened! Saskatchewan is rich in history of stories of Blizzards. Talk to any old timer and they'll reminise about the winter of '55, or how about '82 etc. Well I'll tell you, my day started out fairly normal as I got out of bed, brushed my teeth etc. and proceeded to drive to work. It was windy, the visibility was poor, about 100', and snowing. Within my 8 mile drive to work from out of town somewhere around the half way point the wind roared and the highway disappeared. The vehicles started showing up out of nowhere and so began the tidious task of arriving at work in one piece. I arrived at work without a scrape, but I can tell you a lot of people did'nt! At one point I was thinking of ditching it just to get off the highway and make sure that none of the other brave souls (or Idiots) who made the same trek as I did would not run into the back end of me. This was about 9 in the morning. There were about 10 out of the 20 staff that made it to work that day, some with and some without their cars. One of the staff thought he saw the approach to our shop and when he went to make his turn he hit the ditch...on the WRONG side of the road. I know, explain it to me too! We all grew closer that day as the storm raged on and not a soul came into the shop. Although we did recieve a few phone calls and some people from only 120 miles away could not believe their ears, as they told us that the sun was shining on them! We all hunkered down in the shop around 2 and started to chat it up in front of some spot heaters, (oh yeah, we have Geo Thermal heating at the shop and 2 of the boilers were down so the building was continuing to cool down). It was around 6 that some of us realized that we could kinda see the cars in the parking lot and around 7 we could see them all, but that was it, anything past the parking lot you could'nt see. But we decided to make the arduous and dangerous task of going home to our loved ones. At least those of who made it home! I also forgot to mention that the Police shut down the city around 2. All major accesses and highways were officially closed.
Here is a link to some video and lots of photos that were taken during and after the storm the following day
http://www.ckom.com/index.php?p=bzyourview
theflamanguy
New member
bluemonster1
LIFE MEMBER ONLY ONCE!!!
What a nice batch of snow you guys have there.Wish we could get dumped on again,love that snow.Good sledding to ya's.
Yammerhead
VIP Member
The storm was a gooder. Haven't been in one like that since I was a kid in the early 80's. I am in Martensville too. I waited till daylight and was going to head into work, but my wife called me as I was leaving and told me the RCMP had shut the highway down. Then, I figured I might as well stay and work from home. Glad I did, because I likely would had had to stay over night in Saskatoon.
M-Max
New member
What do you mean work from home
Its a snow day. Get that sled out and ride her.
Its a snow day. Get that sled out and ride her.
YAMAHIZAL700
New member
I thought Id be negative once more. Winter storm advisery yesterday, a whopping 2 inches!
Yammerhead
VIP Member
M-Max said:
I would have, but she was a total white out!! In the open, you couldn't see two feet in front of you. I had also just changed the chain and gears in my sled and hadn't tested it yet. If it decided to pile up while I was out in that, I would have been futched. I did take her for a rip later that night. I needed gas for my snowblower, but the gas stations weren't open anyway.
There have been a couple of stories in the paper since about guys that went out on their sleds during the storm to rescue people. One of the guys I know a bit and he said it was scary at times when you didn't have any idea where you were or where you were going.
It was good to see sledders being portrayed in a positive light instead of our usual negative press.
