Yes it snows in the Yukon, but not like this
In the Yukon, we get many months of snow falling, but it’s unusual to get heavy dumps of it, and what we call “heavy” is a joke in many areas. On Monday and Tuesday, though, we got about 38 centimeters (15 inches) of it, and I still haven’t got it cleaned up.
I’m not able to deal with much of the snow anymore. Even handling the snowblowers is beyond me. A couple of weeks ago, I called a neighbour with a Bobcat to take care of the driveway.
The next day was beautiful and I was able to get some fine-tuning done. I even got the roof of the motorhome cleaned off (I really need to get a carport built for it). I actually had to fire up the motorhome to yank the Tracker out of a snowbank I’d buried it in – whoops! 🙂
Winter is much nicer to view from this angle.
I spend a lot of time in bed and usually give most of the credit for taking care of me to Tucker, but Molly does a wonderful job of it, too. She is so sweet to Cathy and I, though she hates everybody else.
I hired a contractor to finish a bit of drywall and then paint 2 of the 3 largest rooms in the basement, the laundry and the fitness room. Getting the rooms ready – moving furniture, appliances, and equipment, and removing all the stuff from the walls, was a big enough job for me. Yes, I could have gotten them to do it.
On Sunday, my Facebook post simply said: “14-19 cm tonight and tomorrow – sigh“, with this Snow Warning weather forecast attached.
Monday began as a warm, calm morning, with the temperature at -4 and a light snow falling. I created the next image as my morning inspirational – “Think it to be it.”
At 1:00 on Monday, with heavy snow falling and the roads geting worse by the minute, I drove into town to get some groceries. The next 2 photos show Robert Service Way, which most of us still just call “the South Access.”
Alongside the Yukon River, at the base of the “clay cliffs” – the airport is directly above.
The airport is a great place to shoot when the weather turns bad. My usual parking spots were well covered with that white stuff when I stopped there at 2:30. Even plowing snow like this, the all-wheel-drive in my Caddie has never let me down.
It takes more than this to stop Air North. The only Air Canada flight on the board, though was “Delayed.”
Heading for home on the Alaska Highway just before 3:00.
My painters finished that afternoon. Now I have to put it back together, and start putting the baseboards back on.
Tuesday morning, my car really was a snowplow, not just on my driveway but for a couple of blocks to the main road as well.
It’s now Saturday morning. I’ve been pecking away at decks and sidewalks, and am still waiting for the Bobcat to return for the driveway clearing.
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