I live very close to Canada. The weather is very, very cold and bleak here. When it is a sunny, warm day, you do your best to appreciate it.
When a Democrat wins, and half the Republicans claim “I’m moving to Canada!”… it’s like, have you met Canada? If you’re somehow that upset over Obama, you’re probably not going to be happy here,
michael moriarty is that you?
Then again, to be fair, some of them don’t seem to think it through. When a Republican wins the presidency, and half the Democrats claim “I’m moving to Canada!”, you can sort of see how the desire makes sense. When a Democrat wins, and half the Republicans claim “I’m moving to Canada!”… it’s like, have you met Canada? If you’re somehow that upset over Obama, you’re probably not going to be happy here,
Yeah, it's a bit of an irony in that a majority of Canada is Democrat-like. Perhaps Republicans would be seeing the red all over, not realizing they'd be more comfortable with blue.
Oh, I must have missed it when you first mentioned it. Sorry about that. Yeah, I can't wait for winter to end. We've had a bit of melting earlier this week, but then it went right back to freezing temps the rest of the week. On top of this, Ontario's predictive Groundhog, has passed away. I suspect that will extend winter some more...
I live in a fairly blue state. I'm not going to say exactly which, but I can safely say I don't belong here. Not only politically speaking, but also due to the dreary winters. I've lived like this all my life and the past two years or so it has really started to wear on me. It is very difficult to get things done outside when it is like this.
I don't exactly know for sure where I would move if I had the ability to. Definitely further South. I wouldn't live in a place like Florida though (hurricanes, flooding).
Dreary winters are the worst. They always seem to last longer and wear us all out. It's funny to my ears that the March Break usually means going to the beach for a lot of Americans, but meanwhile here, when it happens, we're still very much freezing.
We had a large amount of snow this year. The past week or so saw it all thaw and melt, leaving the yard a total mudpit with minor flooding. Now it is back below freezing and snowing a bit.
Yeah, so it does appear you've been caught in the same weather patterns. You wouldn't happen to live in Michigan, would you?
Good guess - but nope.
My next guess would have been Minnesota, because dontcha know? 
I can’t imagine that any of the MAGA faithful would actually want to live in our so-called “authoritarian socialist regime”. These are the people that seem to think Carney, like Trudeau before him, is some kind of tyrannical dictator because we have * checks notes * gun control laws and laws against hate speech.
Then again, to be fair, some of them don’t seem to think it through. When a Republican wins the presidency, and half the Democrats claim “I’m moving to Canada!”, you can sort of see how the desire makes sense. When a Democrat wins, and half the Republicans claim “I’m moving to Canada!”… it’s like, have you met Canada? If you’re somehow that upset over Obama, you’re probably not going to be happy here,
We have Republicans here in Alberta, slithering around, helping the separatists with social media propaganda and funding. The way things are now in Alberta, MAGAs would be more comfortable as long as the premier gets on with the process of completely shredding the public health system, the public school system, bringing religion back into schools, stomping harder on the LGBT, disabled, and immigrants (groups Smitler is already stomping on), and so on.
My most recent hospital stay was in 2019 - thankfully before covid was a thing - dealing with a new diabetes diagnosis and trying to make the nurses understand that I'd also had a diagnosis of cataracts and I couldn't read the mountain of paperwork they were shoving at me. They weren't going to let me out to see the eye surgeon who was going to fix my eyes, until I pointed out that I wasn't far from blind, and if I did go blind I wouldn't be able to read labels and insulin pens and the thousand other things they wanted me to read.
The weather is the weather. Adjust your layers and get on with your day. That's how we do it.
There's a lot of anti-Alberta crap going on, but at least here we don't have hurricanes. Wind storms, yes. Tornadoes, yes (though I've never been in one, thank goodness). Blizzards are standard; there's still time for a couple before winter is over (winter is over here in early May, if this year is like the last decade or so, thanks to climate change). So there's an advantage to being landlocked.
My municipality takes a proactive approach to mitigating the risk of wildfires. My city has a lot of woodland areas, and a trail system that acts as a wildlife migration corridor so the animals can move north/south and east/west through a natural habitat that doesn't put them at risk of injury/death on the roadways (unlike Calgary that has several incidents each year of moose on the freeway; that rarely ends happily for the moose and if you collide with one of them in a car, it rarely ends happily for the humans, either; car/moose collisions can be fatal for both).
So what they do is have controlled burns, to deal with a lot of the detritus that provides fuel for wildfires. It does help. As for other natural disasters, there's flooding. It happens now and then; I've seen a creek turn into a river, and the high water was about a block and a half from my house one year. I'm reasonably safe where I am now, though, on a hilltop overlooking the river valley.
We had a snowstorm over the last couple of days but it's stopped now. Blue sky, temperature a balmy -7C, but warning of more snow on the way this weekend.
Meh. The February chinook winds arrived as usual, so we already had our winter break.
Thank you for sharing this! I do wonder what it would like like with more recent numbers, since everything seems to have gone up fairly significantly post-COVID, especially groceries and housing costs.
True, although the northern states get pretty similar weather to what we do, anyway. I imagine that people from the southern states would have a more difficult time with it.
michael moriarty is that you?
You know, I always feel so dumb when I don't get a joke.
(Sorry.)Poor Willie.
Don't worry, though, much like the royal family, there will always be another. Willie has been predicting the weather for 70 years, and the maximum lifespan of a groundhog in captivity seems to be about 14 years, so....My next guess would have been Minnesota, because dontcha know?
I have friends in Minnesota. Good people. Obviously there is as much political diversity there as here, but a good portion of the state seems to be quite liberal, and aligns well with Canadian politics. And from what I've heard, it sounds like their winters are even worse than in my neck of the woods!
^ Yeah, interestingly, in terms of latitude, Minnesota's a fairly large State and more northerly than half of Southern Ontario. Reminds me that I took a trip out west via Minnesota in 2013, and there was this huge snowstorm across the State with whiteouts, and many vehicles in ditches, so I can definitely understand their winters. They're as hearty as Canadians in that regard.
Poor Willie.
So that means he was an Animagus. I wonder who he was as a human?
You know, I always feel so dumb when I don't get a joke.
It thought it might have been a tad obscure so don't feel too bad.
imagine if canada was still owned by the french
^Imagine if they were still a British Dominion
I am taking a few minutes to celebrate Pi Day.
While I'm sure it's meant to be celebrated with something mathematical, I just plan to eat 100% of a mini-blueberry pie.
While I'm sure it's meant to be celebrated with something mathematical, I just plan to eat 100% of a mini-blueberry pie.
^Imagine if they were still a British Dominion
lol lol
Imagine if they were in the British Commonwealth…oh, wait.
lol also known as the british empire
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