There’s simply nothing quite like a blizzard in May in Manitoba. Most folks are obviously a little grouchy, but the pure oddness of it means no one gets terribly worked up about it.
As you can probably read on any Canadian news site, most of the southern prairies got dumped with snow over the last couple of days. In southern Manitoba yesterday we had a curious mixture of thunderstorms and great quantities of wet snow and ice pellets. As long as you didn’t have to go anywhere it wasn’t that bad, except of course that the hydro was jittery or completely out for most of the day.
It was still snowing today. The wind was up a bit creating a whiteout during the bulk of the day. The hydro was generally back up (a few people were still without in the morning at least), but every major road in the area was closed.
It’s all died down now, so I went and snapped this picture of The Station (one of the local retail establishments). It’s the perfect summary for the last couple of days.
![[Photo of a snowy store front.]](/weblog/images/thestation.jpg)
For that picture to make sense you need to be able to read the handwritten sign on the door. It’s too small in the first picture, so I blew it up a bit. It reads “Closed Due To Weather”.
