Winter's Stern Command

Courtesy of Environment Canada, this is the winter cyclone that clobbered us here in Newfoundland yesterday. This is a different storm than the one that hit the eastern US yesterday.

It took me four hours to snowblow the two driveways and clear the paths and doorways (now you understand my fixation on mad super-powered snowblowers). While the center of the storm stayed well out to sea, we still received 30-plus centimeters of heavy snow. The Americans got over 30 inches or about 80 centimeters..

But the real issue was winds gusting over 100 kph. From VOCM, here are photos of the damage caused in the Battery, the neighbourhood right in the narrows of St. John's Harbour.

By the way, the title, Winter's Stern Command, comes from the Ode to Newfoundland, Newfoundland's historic National anthem.






And here is Newfoundland metal guitarist Chris Feener with a mashup of The Ode to Newfoundland, Salt Water Joys (our unofficial anthem), and a Christmas tune of all things, The Mummer's Song.



So that's why we live here!