Overnight the water main was fixed and the road was reopened.
Apparently many things were still closed today but Loblaws was open. It was busy but again there was no lineup at the cash.
I did work as things need to progress with the course so that we can get our marks in on time.
Apparently the Concession St. closure is related to a water main break. Doesn't explain why they give no warning that it is closed. There also were no workers that I could see so there may not be any resolution tomorrow. Hopefully they will work on the signage soon.
I made homemade pizza for dinner. It was really good, so happy with it!
I walked to Shoppers today and saw that Concession is closed to traffic. It looks like it flooded and then froze so they closed it as it is dangerous. However, there is no warning to anyone that it is closed before you get to it, so there are cars entering the intersection to go there and then realizing that they can't and having to change directions mid-intersection, also dangerous. Not sure which is worse! The beer store is closed today, not sure what people will do tomorrow if they want to go to the beer store as that area is impassable to vehicular traffic.
Traffic in general was pretty light. Shoppers was busy as there seemed to be some sales on. It was not difficult to get to a cash though and I was only picking up one things so I was in and out pretty quick.
Sidewalks and roads are passable but there is ice under everything so care needs to be taken!
Walked to Rustle today and the roads were passable. The sidewalks weren't always passable so I had to walk on the roads at some points.
The 401 looks mostly green.
The bits that I had dug out for paths don't seem to be drifting over anymore, the sky is mostly blue but more snow is in the forecast for the next few days.
Yesterday I made vegetable flatbreads, which were good. Christmas dinner is Golden coconut turkey curry.
Merry Christmas!
while it looked like the 401 was improving at 1pm
it now looks worse 11pm
While the city said it had pulled its plows, the sidewalk plow did come by. I don't see anyone driving but I saw people walking so I guess it is a good call? The sidewalk plows work will be for naught when the street plow comes by (*if the street plow comes by)
At some points it seemed like the gusting had decreased but I can hear it blowing now!
The wind seems to be howling less but snow is still blowing all over. Checked for clear vents but didn't venture beyond the house.
The blizzard rolled in at lunchtime. There is lots of snow and howling wind. The 401 is closed for large stretches due to dangerous conditions.
I chose my rain boots for the walk to Food Basics and this was the right choice as there were many puddles and it wasn't too cold.
FB itself was busy but not excessively busy.
I am still working my way through my email and snow is falling. Taking a break to make lunch!
The blizzard is only supposed to arrive at noon, which means that the stores will likely be busy in the morning? So far it is only wet and rainy.
This morning I went to see Chelsea. I made another version of the stew. Improved I am told.
My email is over 200 so I tried to take on some of that.
James went out to do hockey coaching. I was hoping that the rain would clean the car!
I was hoping everyone else would go to the grocery store today so that they wouldn't go tomorrow. We'll see how it goes, I just need to pick up a few things.
Yesterday James spent on Wolfe Island playing outdoor hockey. He took a rest day today.
I tried to make his billet's chicken stew but did not have great success.
Now we prepare for the storm
James drove across Canada to arrive back in Kingston. Says he'll keep me on my toes. He wants to make stew with me as he found one he really likes that his billet Mom makes for him. He went out to coach shortly after he arrived and then went out for dinner with other hockey coaches.
A lot of work in the past week. A visit to the Yorkville Mall, a very interesting experience and I didn't even see it all! Today I sorted through a closet where I keep old memories. I found some postcards I sent to Shieleen that she had evidently given back to me. My nose is filled with dust now.
From my trip:
Watching planes land at Pearson while waiting for Dierdre
Second day of the trip- Julie and I were up early and Keith made us fruit cups and his special egg mcmuffins. We headed out the door into the snow. Dixie was pretty snow covered but the highway was better (except when changing lanes). There was one accident going the other way but we made good time to Elevation arriving at 9:20am. We participated in both services and then went to Kelsey's for lunch/dinner. I had the chicken parmesan which was huge and very filling. Then Julie went off to see her sister in Burlington and I waited for by friend Dierdre (we went through university together). She lives in Yorkdale but said she would take an hour to get to me (which is longer than the distance from Yorkdale) which was fine as I watched planes land at Pearson. The wrong move I made was I told her that the Kelsey's was some number on Applewood drive but when I stepped outside I realized it was Aerowood not applewood. So then I was wondering if that was why it was going to take her so long to get to me as I had sent her the wrong address! So I'm trying to text her the right address but I'm not hearing back from her. It turns out she hadn't looked carefully at the address I sent her and had just searched for Kelseys and happened to find the correct one, so that was all good! And then her computer screen had died so she didn't get my other texts with the correct address. It all worked out in the end.
Julie and I drove to Brampton to meet with the ladies in our weekly meeting group. So nice to see them all in person again. The roads were clear and the travel was good though we saw 3 large accidents. One that seemed to have just happened and emergency services weren't there yet. Emergency services were a few kilometers down the road at the second accident. These were before we got into Toronto. In Toronto there were some trucks that were all smushed into each other on one of the roads heading into the 401.
