• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    I’m in northern Ontario and no matter how terrible and blinding snow it is outside … we’ll still have people on social media in our area asking things like … ‘How are the highways today? I want to go to Walmart’

    It will be rain, sleet, snow, solid ice on the highway, blinding snow, no visibility and there will always be a dozen people asking … ‘How are the roads? We need to get to grandma’s for a party’

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      17 hours ago

      Just keep replying “Despite this hellish blizzard covering the whole Ontario, it’s clear skies and sunshine on the highways. Praise the lord!”

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        16 hours ago

        A glacial ice sheet has formed over Highway 17 and it is now 100 feet deep and compacting at the bottom into solid ice … all animal life is freezing to death in the minus 60 degree weather … but if you’re careful, you can still make it to Walmart before closing