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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Any place that hasn't had a freeze by December is unCanadian! 
Question for those in Vancouver and Victoria, do you like not having snow at Christmas? I get the appeal of a mild winter, but Christmas is one time when you want the snow, especially with all the lights! I remember a friend taking me to a house in Langley that's famous for the Christmas display and it was just wasn't the same with green grass and no snow. The second night I saw it there was some fog, so that was better, but still not the same...
To me, Christmas should have enough snow to cover the ground and maybe pile up a bit on fences and bushes and whatever (2cm seems like a good number), and it should also be snowing outside, preferably nice big snowflakes (which means it's relatively warm, somewhere between 0 and -5). In Calgary, the weather is all over the place, we are almost as likely to have a brown Christmas as a white one. I'll be in Banff this weekend, nothing better than the mountains at Christmas with a good blanket of snow! |
My problem with a white Christmas isn't that I don't like the snow (Vancouver looks stunning under a blanket of it), it's what happens to the city after the snow has fallen. It's pure chaos. The city will never be built for snow because the investment isn't worth it for the amount we get, so every year it's the same thing - snow falls, and the city becomes a dangerous gauntlet. Just getting to work can be an exercise in futility. Besides, you're never that far away from snow in Vancouver if you have a car. A quick trip up any mountain will get you there.*
So yeah, Vancouver is much better off without snow. It's this time of year when the city and surrounding forests become a moss-covered Narnia, and that's how I like it.
*This year notwithstanding. Those poor ski hills.
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