One evening this week, I saw a city sanding dump truck rushing Eastward along West Broadway Avenue; it was the really big kind with the snow plow on the front -- Eeeeeeeek!
News the next day that the first snow of the year fell at the nearby Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, quite a bit earlier than usual. No one cares to guess if we're in for a mild or severe winter. Regardless of the snowy, or warm, extremes we might have, the "median" Vancouver winter can be seen in the very moving image above, across the street from the bottle depot at Ontario Street, and 7th Avenue. The rain was light to start with, so as to acclimatize a city still basking in memories of dry, sunny, summer days. By the time I was in the bottle depot, it was hitting it's stride. I heard a kind of woosh at one point, and turned to look out the loading bay-size entrance, and the rain had suddenly throttled-up to waterfall-mode; it didn't last, by the time I took the video above, it was just a bit above average. Soon though, when it starts, it won't stop for days, and days.
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