Lucky
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“Pink” must be Canadian for “magenta.”
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MinnieM123
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MinnieM123
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Meant to also mention yesterday, that the sound of the powerful falling water over rocks is a big part of the experience of being near a waterfall. It's the combination of both the visual and audible, that makes waterfalls so outstanding.
Lucky
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Magenta sounds less naughty.Actually, Brantford appears to fall within a fuchsia zone.
That’s probably why there’s no Blue’s Clues character named Fuchsia.
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JenniferS
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Got news for you both ... Brantford is now a WHITE zone.Actually, Brantford appears to fall within a fuchsia zone.
It is snowing pretty hard, and schools are not cancelled.
Nemo14
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FTFYMagenta sounds less naughty.
Goofyernmost
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I'd be embarrassed for you if the schools were closed in the great white north. I can understand the more southern wimps when it comes to snow fright, but, not the snow in the blood Canadians. If northerners stopped everything because of snow, we would have never left the house practically all year.
Songbird76
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Where I grew up, we lived in town, but it was Wyoming, so everything was far apart. A lot of kids were brought in by bus, and we would sometimes have early release for the bus kids before a storm hit. If it was too late, each kid had to have a contact in town who could pick them up from school and where they could stay the night. When I was teaching, I stayed at my Aunt's house one night when it started to get bad. I lived 40 miles away and my Aunt lived there in the town where I was teaching. It wasn't ideal as she was elderly and went to bed at something like 7pm, but it was better than driving 40 miles in a blizzard.
HouCuseChickie
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I'd be embarrassed for you if the schools were closed in the great white north. I can understand the more southern wimps when it comes to snow fright, but, not the snow in the blood Canadians. If northerners stopped everything because of snow, we would have never left the house practically all year.
We just don't get enough winter weather to make it fiscally responsible to be outfit with the proper equipment/supplies to handle the rare winter weather.
Now me...I'm a wimp. 
I used to think anything above 10-15 was fine and 30 could be shorts weather. Now...I'm bundled up and layered by the low 60s. I like to tell people it's because it's a damp cold here. Kind of the same concept of 95 and dry vs. 95 and humid. Oh well, now I'm well suited for swamp conditions!!!
JenniferS
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I remember just a handful of snow days from my childhood - including the infamous Blizzard of ‘77, and two or three more from my high school years. Less in my entire 14 year school career than in 2019 alone.I'd be embarrassed for you if the schools were closed in the great white north. I can understand the more southern wimps when it comes to snow fright, but, not the snow in the blood Canadians. If northerners stopped everything because of snow, we would have never left the house practically all year.
We actually went to school on the day of the Blizzard, but were dismissed early. I was in a portable classroom at the time, and I remember the teacher tying everyone’s scarves together and making us hold on to it like kindergarteners to head back into the school. Without a word of exaggeration, you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face at that point. Without the scarf conga line, half of us would never have made it back to the main school.
It’s all about liability now. While not yet as litigious as the US, Canadians are trying very hard to catch up.
Songbird76
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I remember several snow days when I was growing up, but it had to be really bad for them to cancel school. We had a lot more days where bus kids were excused because the buses couldn't run, but kids who lived in town still had to go. We had a blizzard in either 83 or 84 that lasted for 3 days. I remember that one because we were in school and they decided to send us home early, and we had to wait for a parent to get there to pick us up, and I remember the wind blowing so hard that I couldn't take a breath and my mom had to pull my scarf over my mouth so the wind couldn't rush in and take my breath away while we walked to the car. (we only lived a block from the school) I was in 1st grade...and I remember mom putting blankets up over the windows and across the door to keep the heat in, and I think our power went out. One of our friends died in the blizzard trying to take care of his cattle. He couldn't find his way back to his pickup. They found him just a few feet from it....he couldn't see it. So so sad. When it was over, there were drifts 10 feet high. Mom had a picture of a 6 foot tall man standing next to a snow drift that went up above his head, and people couldn't find their cars under all the snow. I remember seeing pictures of a parking lot at the apartments in town....you couldn't see a thing but snow. You couldn't even really make out where the cars were. That was the worst one I can remember.I remember just a handful of snow days from my childhood - including the infamous Blizzard of ‘77, and two or three more from my high school years. Less in my entire 14 year school career than in 2019 alone.
We actually went to school on the day of the Blizzard, but were dismissed early. I was in a portable classroom at the time, and I remember the teacher tying everyone’s scarves together and making us hold on to it like kindergarteners to head back into the school. Without a word of exaggeration, you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face at that point. Without the scarf conga line, half of us would never have made it back to the main school.
It’s all about liability now. While not yet as litigious as the US, Canadians are trying very hard to catch up.
Songbird76
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Ok, so it was 84. http://kingfm.com/wyoming-anniversary-the-blizzard-of-1984/
Nemo14
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