The snow was pretty deep almost 5 feet deep. So unfortunately I didn't have anyways of traveling to get city shots etc. I also only had disposable cameras. So these photos again were scanned from some old photos I found.
I had about 80 photos but in scanning them one at time I had to pick and choose. I had some other really cool ones but I may post them later some time.
Neighbors deck
This was my little car!!!
you can see the impression of the car in the snow. Scanning lost some of the detail but you can still see it.
Clearing our driveway...
Neighbors houses again...
These people, our neighbors were so funny and nice!
That's awesome. I can hardly remember snow like that (except in the mountains), it seems like we used to get snow like that, but I was smaller so maybe it just seemed deeper.
its funny cause at work there was this weird girl and i remember the one day it snowed but it was still driveable and everyone but this girl came into work cause she couldn't make it because of the snow
the next day after a whole day and night of non stop snow no one made it into work at all due to undriveable conditions
everyone except for the one girl who called in the day before - she drove all the way to Coquitlam from Vancouver and got to the office to discover no one else made it
when we finally did get in we all wondered how she couldn't make it the day we all came in but teh day no one could come in she made it - lol
i remember it was quite eerie how dead the roads were for that couple of days - me and my room mate at the time went and sat in a mcdonalds and laughed at people trying to drive up north road of the very few who dared to venture out
It still hasn't snowed this year at all. I know Vancouver's had a bit but just rain and sun here .
That was an insane snowfall. Victoria got hit the hardest too which is the weirdest thing since we are the last to get snow usually. I remember there was almost 2 feet of snow on the ground before that big storm hit. As much as I'd love it to snow again, that was just way too much!!!
I remember this storm, Van also got hit badly (not as bad as Victoria)...it took me 3 hours to drive to work through unplowed roads/highways.
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For whatever reason that day doesn't stand out in my memory at all. Maybe we didn't get much snow in White Rock (we definitely didn't get as much as in those pictures - I would've remembered that). I probably had a snow day at school though, but apparently it wasn't eventful enough to stay in my long term memory. I was probably pretty unconnected to the news back then as well.
Looks like a crazy amount of snow in Victoria anyways. Great pics Great Scraper.
As much as I'd love it to snow again, that was just way too much!!!
I'd love for that to happen again. I did my best to go out and experience it and appreciate it (and videotape it), but darn it all if it isn't such a distant memory now.
I remember walking down to the big playing field by my place on the Saturday night. It had already snowed a lot on Friday, so here's this big field that you just know the neighbourhood kids must have made a mess on all day Saturday, and yet there wasn't a trace of human activity left by 10pm or so. I'd never seen fresh snow come along and bury a previous snow day like that.
And then along came the huge dump overnight, and Sunday was like visiting the planet Hoth. Snow right up over the tops of the basement windows. I'm sure there was a long while during which there wasn't a motorized vehicle moving anywhere in Victoria.
The Friday all by itself would probably have been a candidate for the biggest snow I've ever seen in Victoria. Then Saturday came and blew it away. Then Sunday came and people couldn't believe it.
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