Here in Nova Scota we recently had 2 extreme weather events, that could be attributed to climate change. An early hurricane that wrecked the power grid from one end of the province to the other and now a record snowstorm that has me buried here in Cape Breton.
I dug a path to the street with some help, but my car is still buried and looking up the narrow high banked street, just a few are dug out and a lot of people don't even have a path out of their house. The wet snow has frozen almost solid with a drop in the temps and the plowed snowbanks of compressed snow are like concrete. The power is still on though, but some folks are getting in a bad way, tomorrow I'm getting a lift to the grocery store and a buddy across the street is dug out too. My snowblower guy is kinda fucked in these conditions and I told him to wait for warmer weather to get the car out. The snow against the back door has shrunk down and I might open the window in the storm door and see if I can shovel enough to open the back door to the deck. I'll wait until noon, by then the sun on the deck should have thawed it at 1C.
I feed the birds too, this weather is hard on them, no bread gets thrown away and they like cat food too, they can't get to their food, like we can't get out of our driveways. It does not last long when thrown on the hard snow and competition for food is frantic because they are hungry. They are part of our urban communities, are all around us and are suffering, if one has eyes to see and a heart to empathize.
I wonder what the next extreme weather event will bring our way, rain floods and hurricanes in California and rivers of rain on the west coast. Maybe drought, heatwaves and forest fires this summer.
Cape Breton snow-clearing hits roadblock as wet snow freezes to ice
