My mind was blown last night. PEI, NB, and NS all got pounded with a substantial storm the night before. Was stressed about the drive back from Charlottetown to Halifax but, much to my surprise, the roads were very clear, actually DRY in some places. That is until we crossed into NS from NB. I said out loud, “What just happened?” to which my friend replied, “We just crossed the border”. NS roads were a complete disaster. The excuse that NS got hit with funkier weather conditions than the rest of the Maritimes just won’t fly this time because there was literally a line across the road between Amherst and Sackville to prove it. And I’m off to have the wheels on my 1-month-old car realigned now. —Sam
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2012.
I feels ya. I headed back Sunday for 4 hours ( SUPPOSED to be 3 hours) through the valley and it was pretty treacherous…
that’s storm 3 in a row with the guy just saying… of all things…
“it’s the weather, not our bad”…
you haven’t learned SHIT from the last 2 disasters we call road clearing…
and clearly you have no desire to.
weather my ass….
when the worst stretch of road on the 101 is from windsor to sackville????
that’s fucking stupid.
just an unmitigated disaster.
i’ve seen shit like this too, on the new bridge. it was wild, 5 different types of weather from one side to the other. it looked as tho a knife had cut off one thing, and started on the next. sunny on hali side, then rain, sleet, snow, and ice pellets, followed y fog like you haven’t seen out a horror movie. it was just fucking wild, and if the people in the car with me weren’t there, they never would have believed it when i told them. and on the dartmouth side, just thru the tolls, sunny again. i told guy getting tolls, and he looked at me like i was fucking crazy.
Sam, next time buy a better car. We have winter weather conditions in our province for half the year. Sometimes you may think cheapest is best, but not for a vehicle.
Smarten up.
OB, what are you talking about? The Provincial government says road clearing is the tops and you know DD would never lie to us.
Must be all those part timers doing the plowing – you know if More were here, he’d tell you, this wouldn’t happen if they were unionized!
I don’t believe a Union crew could fuck it up any worse as its been done recently.My road cannot be plowed it is an ice sheet about 2 inches thick & all the plow does is shine it up. We have a path down the middle of our 2 lane rd where they drove right down the middle of the street & spread sand. So unless you drive in the middle of the road, you only have 2 wheels getting traction.
But I remember when we had city work crews & our streets never looked as bad as they do now. But we shouldn’t complain,after all look at all the money we’ve saved.
But as this article points out even our bumbling mayor realises the private contractors are dropping the ball !
http://www.news957.com/news/local/article/…
@if not for you, NB and PEI have winter weather conditions for half the year too. and they pay less tax. And they had an great job done on their roads over the weekend. Neither of those have anything to do with the quality of my car, which you assume to know something about.
Bottom Line is , socialists are tightwads and Tories are concerned for your safety and comfort during winter driving. Dexter is hoping you’ll forget the message and then come the fall he expects you to get out and vote for the new Savage/Dexter approved council. In between he’ll continue shooting a few baskets with his long time buddy Savage II.
Nova Scotia has a fairly unique climate compared to New Brunswick. If you track a winter storm system, it seems New Brunswick pretty much has a uniform result, all snow. In Nova Scotia, you get rain some places, freezing rain some places and snow followed by aforementioned precipitation. Almost like there’s an abundance of micro-climates here, a peninsular effect if you will.
On the last storm, temperatures dropped very rapidly following the storm and places that received a mixture of precipitation types got cluster frozen. I think this made clearing trickier here. I think road clearing would be easier where there’s mainly snow.
Either that or they’re better at clearing the roads in NB.
What kind of car do you own Sam? I was thinking that you must have been driving it pretty hard to need an alignment, or as Infy suggested, a lightweight.
I drove back from Moncton on Monday, because I didn’t want to chance the Cobequid Pass on Sunday. I believe Sam needed an alignment because of the bumpiness caused by the ice. I, too, realize that Nova Scotia gets ‘unique’ winter weather. This is nothing new. Figure out a way to clear the shit off the highways! Two days after the storm and the highway from Truro to Elmsdale was atrocious. I was going anywhere from 40-70 km/hr the whole time.
According to the provincial gov’t’s website, the 100-series highways are a priority and are to be BARE eight hours after the storm ends.