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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Our UK winter seems to have been as long and almost as cold/snowy as yours this time, but maybe we have suffered more hardship because our municiple services didn't cope like yours.
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In general, Canada seems to have had one of the warmest, shortest winters on record ... and there are lots of negatives on this one ... heard on the news yesterday that the govt. of Manitoba has closed the winter roads heading to their northern communties ... this is about a month earlier than usual. The muskeg is thawing ... trucks are stranded in the mud ... truckers are being airlifted out from their abandoned vehicles, and northern communities (all First Nations) are running short of supplies ... those living in the Red River valley are bracing for the floods both in southern Manitoba and in North Dakota ...
But I do agree that we are better prepared for winter weather than most.