I can lend you my Honda snowblower if you like, havent used it yet this winter. Its great on hills.

My grandchildren enjoy the Vancouver snow, son in law drives a bike to work, hope he has studs.

Tire chains work pretty good on hills on a rwd, with lots of sand in the trunk. I had a set back and n the day when I lived in pei, they were woods chains with welded cross links, no need for 4wd.

-- Edited by DonSSDD on Monday 11th of February 2019 07:49:33 AM

Some people do have snow tires as a few years back DOT was stating that if going on certain roads

you must have Snowflake symbol on tires or face a fine. But other signs say M+S so if you buy any tire

now it is rated as M-S so lots of people still use those. I realize most of you guys think this is funny, yes it is, 

but we are not prepared for this, don't have that many plows to keep roads clear. Driving my beater Corolla 

so will play hooky today from work. No I would not like to play in your -27 either Dan. Lots of people here

try and drive to fast and end up causing mayhem on the roads. Wife went into town yesterday afternoon 

and on one hill, 2 cars parked on the side of road and everyone going 5mph down the hill, without touching the brakes

they were sliding sideways. 

Came back to Surrey from Victoria last nite, stuck 3 kms from ferry terminal by dumb people with summer tires
took from 3:30 to 6:30 to get to the ferry
All my cars have snow tires and i just drove around these fools
the ferry people could not even figure out how to mark the lanes !! since i had a reservation and was in line 1 i was ok
they would not load the upper decks cause they did not trust people to drive up the incline

yup took day off today super great snowing again like crazy goin for another snow day tomorrow!

Here is the cure to your problems.......

 

May as well shut the place down if nobody has proper tires and you don't have enough snow clearing equipment.  I'm sure it would save a lot of money for your provincially run insurance, which would in turn save you all on taxes (maybe).

Winter conditions can be tough for people used to it with proper tires and experience, so I can't imagine the mayhem that happens out there in a snow storm.  Not to mention that you probably don't have salt trucks, so when the snow falls and people drive over it, you will get packed down ice that's even more difficult to drive on, and can be somewhat unpredictable.

I wish we could have snow days here... tomorrow we are getting about 15 - 25 cm of snow/ice pellets/freezing rain, with winds up to 80 km/h... but I'll be coming in to work.  It's just a normal winter day for us on the east coast.

-- Edited by MC on Tuesday 12th of February 2019 03:31:02 PM

I see it snowed on Maui and they had flurries in Vegas.

I always and still do run 12 pin studs in my snow tires, makes a difference on ice , works really well with a all wheel drive

MC wrote:

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Tomorrow we are getting about 15 - 25 cm of snow/ice pellets/freezing rain, with winds up to 80 km/h... it's just a normal winter day for us on the east coast.

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 Yep.

... and then there is the abnormal:

 

Do you know that (some of you do) BC Ferries cancelled all of it's sailings betwwen the island and the mainland yesterday? Due to a snowfall "warning" lol. What IS going on?.....I run heavy equipment these days for a living....just finished a shift in the grader(770 Deere) plowing 13.5k of logging road to the local ski hill here on the Sunshine Coast lol A bit of a bummer for me all this Wintery stuff cause I need good weather to get my new/old ride home!! We are a bunch of woosies out here in the West

No snow days for me......45 km's each way to and from work. Wen't from 30,000 cars a day on Sooke rd to about a dozen.