It’s freezing outside. Eventually there comes a time when the actual degree marker on the thermostat no longer matters. After five winters in Winnipeg, I had decided my cut off temperature is -20. Sure, I know that makes me a wimp, but it’s a dry cold. Those who’ve been raised in a dry cold will swear it’s much warmer than a wet cold. I’m sure that’s true if that’s what you’re used to, but I was raised on the east coast with the bone chilling wet cold that’s so familiar to Maritimers.<\/p>\n
Today, it’s -24 (wind chill makes it feel like -37) and it hasn’t stopped snowing in days. I am not looking forward to shoveling the snow surrounding the house. Per the Edmonton<\/a> bylaw:<\/p>\n Property owners are responsible for removing all snow and ice from City sidewalks adjacent to their property within 48 hours of the snow being deposited. It is illegal to remove snow from public or private property and place it on other public property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bah! The streets are packed in snow and many city sidewalks aren’t cleared in a reasonable amount of time, but if I and my neighbours don’t run out in freezing temperatures to dig out the sidewalks we risk being fined.<\/p>\n More importantly – does the 48 hour time period start when the snow starts falling or when it stops? The walk was shoveled this morning before I began work and a few more centimeters have fallen during the day. Since the snow is still falling, can I wait until it stops before I have to start shoveling again?<\/p>\n Technorati Tags: cold<\/a>, winter<\/a>, snow<\/a>, Winnipeg<\/a>, Edmonton<\/a>, freezing<\/a>, temperatures<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s freezing outside. Eventually there comes a time when the actual degree marker on the thermostat no longer matters. After five winters in Winnipeg, I had decided my cut off temperature is -20. Sure, I know that makes me a wimp, but it’s a dry cold. Those who’ve been raised in a dry cold will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frothing-at-the-bit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}