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I have a rant about snow. I started this rant in an email, I’m expanding it JUST FOR YOU!

So, Vancouver doesn’t deal with snow well. Several reasons:

One, we’re a hilly, hilly place. I don’t know if you noticed those big mountainy things over there, but it turns out that even being at the bottom of the mountains means that we’re still up & down all over the place. I don’t envy cyclists in this city in the best of weather, there are hills like gangbusters. But hey, water over there, mountains over here, strangely enough there’s going to be some elevation changes in the stuff in between. When you make hills slippery, it becomes harder to get up and down them in a controlled manner. swoosh!

Two: We get snow once or twice a year. Now, people who bitch and moan every time it snows because OMG it never snows in Vancouver! are also very, very annoying. Yes, it snows in Vancouver. Virtually every year. For a few days, then it stops. Shut up already. But regardless, we only get a few days of snow in a year, do ou really want to city cut funding to awesome things like arts and social housing so that we have an amazing response to snow for TWO OR THREE DAYS A YEAR?

Yes, Toronto has a much better response to snow than we do. Absolutely true. Georgia’s is worse, by the way. Although Vancouver has way more Toronto transplants than Atlantians…

Quite frankly, I’d rather have a few shitty days a year than cut funding elsewhere. Even if it makes my job harder. Now shut up and if possible, stay home for one or two days a year when the weather sucks ass.