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Must have misread that chart completely!

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It probably showed snow amounts.

We had 5 - 10cm of snow here yesterday, but that will only class as something less than 1mm of precip because that's the water equivalent.

And from what I experienced yesterday the amount of snow isn't the problem, it's the high winds and lack of things to stop the snow blowing everywhere. One good thing though - it only snows when it's milder so at least it wasn't so cold yesterday

I know perfectly what you mean. When I lived in south Sweden, there's seldom snow but when there is there are major problems. The rest of the country is just laughing, as 5 cm of snow normally isn't a problem.

However, with a lot of wind and a lot of huge open fields, the snow drifts and accumulates. Especially when the highway is built 2-3 meters below the fields, as a channel. Quickly you'll end up with sections of snow up to a meter or more...

Sorry, didn't mean to disturb your thread too much. Now when you've been there for a while, how do the population look? Are there much more men than women (I would suspect so, if people go there for work for a limited time)?

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I get the same thing at home in Ontario ski country - lake effect snow that increases the amount that we get and then lots of open fields for it to blow across.

There are two very different types of people here - the locals and the 'southerners'. There are more men than women in the outsiders as you would expect given the amount of infrastructure building that is going on, but it's not as unbalanced as you might think. Most of the construction now is skilled trades - the weather is starting to shut down outdoor work so the focus is on closing in builders for plumbers / electricians / etc and a lot of the outside workers are going back south. In terms of government / professional workers there are likely still more men, but there are quite a few women here as well. The tendency is for people from say 22 - 35 to come up after they finish school to earn more money, get better retirement benefits (1 1/2 years of benefit for every 1 year of service), etc. By nature a lot of those people are single people and so there is a little more balance. In fact I have one person on my course who only came up here because his fiance got work up here so he followed her (now that's love!!!).

I'm glad I came up, and I hope that I get asked back (though a warmer time of year would be nice), but I'm ready to head home on Thursday!.

I can’t see the pics until I get home but the read has been really interesting.

Made all the more so as because of the region and locals that I’ve encountered over last 2 weeks (except I was working in 45+ C).

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Amazing pics and a very interesting culture, thanks for sharing Roff!

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