3 30 pm it’s spring 4 15 wow lots of snow . I’m not surprised off the snow I am a calgaryian and this type of heavy snow happens every year at least 2 times
Second generation born and bred Calgarian. That was the biggest dump of snow since the St. Patrick’s Day bout in 1998. As a 14 year old I recall a big one on December 30,1975. Well....happy shovelling everyone!!!!
yup that's Alberta for ya! I live in BC now and by 7am or earlier all the main roads are plowed, including residential main roads. In calgary and edmonton they plow residential streets once or twice the entire season!
Went out yesterday and today. The worst thing is not walking down streets, it's walking across them. Hate the snow piled up on the sides of streets. Edit the piled up snow should be removed from bus stops. You know there is a problem when people like me have to step over snowbanks to get to the sidewalks, and vice versa.
Clearing the bus stop pads are usually in day 3 or 4 of the city's 7 day snow plan. That's also when residential side streets gets snowbladed down to within 5 cm depth from the asphalt at the edges so that's when you'll no longer risk being stuck within ten feet of your driveway. Such snowfalls don't happen often, perhaps once every three years but it's worth buying modern retractable studded winter tires in Calgary or at the very least decent winter tires. This particular snowfall was at least dry so it didn't clog up my otherwise overwhelmed electric corded snow thrower, it was slow going as the snow was deeper than the machine was tall so the spout had to be close to vertical to not blow into the snow and you had to first borrow a little, let the top collapse and then clear the fallen snow. The neighborhood kids of course quickly disrupted the vertically carved banks scattering snow back into the driveway. For some reason they prefer playing in our yard and driveway over that of the other homes in the vicinity. The doorbell cam captures a lot of clips of children playing.
@@johnwang9914 glad to hear that. Can't wait til the snow is off the side streets. In my part of the city, bus routes were detoured because the (hilly) roads weren't passable.
@@johnwang9914 why do they blade to 5cm though? Why don’t they properly plow and remove just like other sane winter climate cities. Get some real snow plots instead of those useless blades that are glorified butter knives that sit under the middle of the truck chassis and maybe dump salt instead of gravel when it’s well above -10 (no joke last snow fall before this one they came and dumped gravel on the street at 5 degrees which is madness since salt would work fine and would for the remainder of the 7 day forecast).
@@calvinrovinescu6166 The budget. Snowblading to 5cm is one pass grading to the asphalt at the crown of the road resulting in 5cm depth at the edges as roads are curved. To blade to the ground requires two more passes on each side of the road angled with the road curvature. This year, it appears they've only budgeted for the single pass on residential streets while in previous years grading to the ground had been budgeted but even then it was only when citizens complained which typically happens after a major snowfall. There are also some streets that they never get to either because the equipment don't fit or they just don't think they're worth clearing, indeed there's been a lot more residential street cleaning now that they use the big automated garbage trucks instead of the old three man trucks so it seems to be a matter of when the city itself needs them streets cleared. I think given the financial restraints in general this year, we'll be lucky to get the single pass. I've noticed in many TH-cam videos, many people are hand shoveling well into the streets this year, one video had a lane right down the cul de sac shoveled, that usually doesn't happen, people normally just clear their driveways and wait for the city or simply let traffic bring down the snow on the streets. Perhaps it's because more new immigrants have been posting videos and they are only now learning how much more effort it is to hand shovel out a section of the street. Those of us that have lived in Calgary most of our lives know the weather will change and the snow will either be slush or packed down by traffic if not cleared by the city. Heavy snow only makes winter driving exciting for a few days.
@@johnwang9914 financial restraints are becoming a stale excuse. Are they as bad as they say if they can afford tax cuts that are supposedly going to happen next year? Oh wait next year is an election year so that figures. Furthermore, what city or government isn’t broke beyond any hope of financial salvation after this year? Maybe they shouldn’t have had sweeper trains out in late summer/early fall when we didn’t get snow for a change in late September/early October or maybe we didn’t need to buy that new overbuilt toy of a police helicopter and use the money for proper snow plows rather than a gravel truck with a 6-8 foot long nearly flat polishing blade mounted between the axles. A proper snow plow has a larger and more curved blade mounted on the front and I know we have at least a few here I’ve seen driving on Glenmore but I’ve never seen more than one at a time or being used in a formation that properly removes snow from the entire surface evenly like they do in other cities such as Toronto. We are 4 days past this blizzard now and I’m still looking at my street thinking I’d get stuck. In other cities they don’t wait for the weather to take care of it, nor should we because it may not. Chinook wind may blow in but it may not get above 0 at surface elevation or instead (more likely this year) the polar vortex blows in and we basically become another Winnipeg. Their answer then? Gravel, and all that does is damage our property and basically nothing else. It’s also pathetic how their response changes based on what budget they’re on or when in winter it is. They will do their usual pathetic job and then towards the end of winter if it’s been bad they will come and actually start removing the months old snow off the residential streets with an auger that probably should’ve been done weeks before. Otherwise we don’t generally have real snow removal here, I like to call it snow moval. Just get that little blade down and push it around a bit, maybe put some salt or beet juice in it, and cross our fingers and hope that west wind blows in. I vaguely remember at some point in the past they used to use actual graders on many roads unless I’m remembering wrong.
Your video doesn't show anywhere near the extent of the snowfall, which was actually about 13 inches, or 33 cm, as measured on my garbage cans when I went out to shovel on Tuesday.
Actually, this video was just the beginning of snowfall in downtown, check out my next video please with the full extent of the snow. Thanks. th-cam.com/video/j-pjFh4VqRc/w-d-xo.html
Depends on where in the city. South and especially west (where it seems to almost always be worse) got up to 40 and the drift from the wind had snow piled up as high as the headlights and part way up the doors on my car. Snowblowers were stalling and my street was so bad even pickup trucks were getting stuck
This city is so bad at clearing the roads, I can't go see my daughter cause of this crappy, her road is impassable lane way is terrible can't drive in it there are no trucks out there clearing the roads
The residential streets don't get snowbladed till day 3 to 4 of the 7 day snow plan so basically Christmas Eve and day. You should be able to access those side roads after that. Of course if you had studded winter tires, it wouldn't be a problem. Chains works well too but with chains you can't drive faster then maybe 20 km/h and since the major feeder roads have been plowed on day 2 of the plan, you'll be stuck with putting on and taking off the chains repeatedly or simply driving at a crawl the entire way. I was tempted to put on the chains on day two after this snowfall but I just let the car's electronic traction control thrash and almost not kept up. Plenty of cars stuck though on days 1 and 2, and even the 4 wheel drives were having difficulty, had to help dig out a Amazon delivery minivan that tried doing a three point turn (he should've just drove up onto the shoveled driveway and then backed out onto the road instead of risk stopping off the crown of the road). Studs are certainly the way to go and modern studded tires have retractable studs so they no longer damage dry asphalt. Sure some prairie cities have more snowplows than Calgary and some cities grade and sand the alleys which is where many people's garages open up to but remember, a snowfall like this will cost about a million and a half for the city to clear. It's worth being patient to try and keep those costs down.
@@johnwang9914 so obviously they don't care about Xmas dinner for some families, I was supposed to be having dinner tonight but can't park anywhere and can't keep my 4 ways on for 2 hours so other cars can pass me, this is the worst full dump of snow we have had in a # of years but not at Xmas very disappointed in this city, the plan should have had an exemption in this case, so now I can't see my daughter till sometime next week
@@glendabethwhittingham1696 You really can't expect mother nature to keep your family's schedule and do you think it would be right for the city to spend 4 or 5 million dollars over the 1.5 million the current seven day snow clearance plan just to keep your Christmas dinner plan? If you really must get in, go to a car dealership and take a four wheel drive vehicle out for a 24 hour test drive or just find someone more prepared for heavy snow then you are to drive you in, simple studded tires should do fine. Even tire chains will get you in and out albeit at less than 20 km/h.
@@gq-cw6xi Ever since the Scandinavian countries mandated that winter tires be studded, the market has been full of studded tires with retractable studs. Of course, these would only be with factory studded tires, field installed studs are often still just studs. If I was to look at winter tires today, I would seriously look at Nokian which was the first company to come out with retractable studs. www.nokiantyres.com/innovation/research-and-development/the-world-s-first-winter-tyre-with-retractable-studs/ Maybe you should learn how to google...
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3 30 pm it’s spring 4 15 wow lots of snow . I’m not surprised off the snow I am a calgaryian and this type of heavy snow happens every year at least 2 times
It flips really fast in Calgary. Thanks.
Great video, thanks for putting that together 😊
Thanks for watching.😍
We are in a winter wonderland now so we better bundle ourselves and explore outside despite the temperature. Beautiful!
8:21 AM, almost snowed in now. I think it's safe to call this year a white christmas.
Happily agreed. Merry Christmas. Thanks.
@@LifeGoesON2 u too
Second generation born and bred Calgarian. That was the biggest dump of snow since the St. Patrick’s Day bout in 1998. As a 14 year old I recall a big one on December 30,1975. Well....happy shovelling everyone!!!!
Miss the city, miss the weather, and miss the trail...!!
snow storm like this again feb 3rd 2021
I live in Calgary and we got 45cm in our part of the city that day ❄️⛄
Myy God... there were soo many got stuck.... stop towing car.. came home.. I was tired out...
I'm watching this on the 24th and yes it will be a white Christmas
Merry Christmas 🎄
Or a slushy Christmas given the warm weather blowing in.
@@LifeGoesON2 Merry Christmas my G
@@LifeGoesON2 merry chrisler
Very nicely done. Music sounds festive despite the weather.. I loved it!
Merry Christmas 🎄
@@LifeGoesON2 Merry Christmas to you and team as well.
That is festive weather!
What a beautiful Mother Nature
Wow that’s cool video. Thanks for sharing:)
Beautiful Calgary.
You’re right, weather changes in a minute in Alberta, being in Edmonton for three decade it is a fact. New friend full support
Thanks. God bless 😍
yup that's Alberta for ya! I live in BC now and by 7am or earlier all the main roads are plowed, including residential main roads. In calgary and edmonton they plow residential streets once or twice the entire season!
Alberta owns BC. Bought it up during the hay days of oil. Suck it up BC you are owned!
3x higher tax rate and a socialist government not worth it
Calgary winter driving is real AF lol.
wow gorgeous video
Yeah people just say, "This is Calgary, no one can exactly predict the weather" 🙃
Yeah, specially in Calgary, it changes really fast. Thanks for watching.
The forecasts are only ever correct when they're bad news.
@@mikelowe5096 so true
Went out yesterday and today. The worst thing is not walking down streets, it's walking across them. Hate the snow piled up on the sides of streets.
Edit the piled up snow should be removed from bus stops. You know there is a problem when people like me have to step over snowbanks to get to the sidewalks, and vice versa.
Clearing the bus stop pads are usually in day 3 or 4 of the city's 7 day snow plan. That's also when residential side streets gets snowbladed down to within 5 cm depth from the asphalt at the edges so that's when you'll no longer risk being stuck within ten feet of your driveway. Such snowfalls don't happen often, perhaps once every three years but it's worth buying modern retractable studded winter tires in Calgary or at the very least decent winter tires. This particular snowfall was at least dry so it didn't clog up my otherwise overwhelmed electric corded snow thrower, it was slow going as the snow was deeper than the machine was tall so the spout had to be close to vertical to not blow into the snow and you had to first borrow a little, let the top collapse and then clear the fallen snow. The neighborhood kids of course quickly disrupted the vertically carved banks scattering snow back into the driveway. For some reason they prefer playing in our yard and driveway over that of the other homes in the vicinity. The doorbell cam captures a lot of clips of children playing.
@@johnwang9914 glad to hear that. Can't wait til the snow is off the side streets. In my part of the city, bus routes were detoured because the (hilly) roads weren't passable.
@@johnwang9914 why do they blade to 5cm though? Why don’t they properly plow and remove just like other sane winter climate cities. Get some real snow plots instead of those useless blades that are glorified butter knives that sit under the middle of the truck chassis and maybe dump salt instead of gravel when it’s well above -10 (no joke last snow fall before this one they came and dumped gravel on the street at 5 degrees which is madness since salt would work fine and would for the remainder of the 7 day forecast).
@@calvinrovinescu6166 The budget. Snowblading to 5cm is one pass grading to the asphalt at the crown of the road resulting in 5cm depth at the edges as roads are curved. To blade to the ground requires two more passes on each side of the road angled with the road curvature. This year, it appears they've only budgeted for the single pass on residential streets while in previous years grading to the ground had been budgeted but even then it was only when citizens complained which typically happens after a major snowfall. There are also some streets that they never get to either because the equipment don't fit or they just don't think they're worth clearing, indeed there's been a lot more residential street cleaning now that they use the big automated garbage trucks instead of the old three man trucks so it seems to be a matter of when the city itself needs them streets cleared. I think given the financial restraints in general this year, we'll be lucky to get the single pass.
I've noticed in many TH-cam videos, many people are hand shoveling well into the streets this year, one video had a lane right down the cul de sac shoveled, that usually doesn't happen, people normally just clear their driveways and wait for the city or simply let traffic bring down the snow on the streets. Perhaps it's because more new immigrants have been posting videos and they are only now learning how much more effort it is to hand shovel out a section of the street. Those of us that have lived in Calgary most of our lives know the weather will change and the snow will either be slush or packed down by traffic if not cleared by the city. Heavy snow only makes winter driving exciting for a few days.
@@johnwang9914 financial restraints are becoming a stale excuse. Are they as bad as they say if they can afford tax cuts that are supposedly going to happen next year? Oh wait next year is an election year so that figures. Furthermore, what city or government isn’t broke beyond any hope of financial salvation after this year? Maybe they shouldn’t have had sweeper trains out in late summer/early fall when we didn’t get snow for a change in late September/early October or maybe we didn’t need to buy that new overbuilt toy of a police helicopter and use the money for proper snow plows rather than a gravel truck with a 6-8 foot long nearly flat polishing blade mounted between the axles. A proper snow plow has a larger and more curved blade mounted on the front and I know we have at least a few here I’ve seen driving on Glenmore but I’ve never seen more than one at a time or being used in a formation that properly removes snow from the entire surface evenly like they do in other cities such as Toronto.
We are 4 days past this blizzard now and I’m still looking at my street thinking I’d get stuck. In other cities they don’t wait for the weather to take care of it, nor should we because it may not. Chinook wind may blow in but it may not get above 0 at surface elevation or instead (more likely this year) the polar vortex blows in and we basically become another Winnipeg. Their answer then? Gravel, and all that does is damage our property and basically nothing else.
It’s also pathetic how their response changes based on what budget they’re on or when in winter it is. They will do their usual pathetic job and then towards the end of winter if it’s been bad they will come and actually start removing the months old snow off the residential streets with an auger that probably should’ve been done weeks before. Otherwise we don’t generally have real snow removal here, I like to call it snow moval. Just get that little blade down and push it around a bit, maybe put some salt or beet juice in it, and cross our fingers and hope that west wind blows in.
I vaguely remember at some point in the past they used to use actual graders on many roads unless I’m remembering wrong.
Wonderful video
Is it any wonder why we get grumpy at times?
Ha ha ha .. true true! Stay safe,warm & happy. Merry Christmas & have a wonderful happy new year.
Just wondering, what’s so “crazy” about this snowfall?
Welcome to Canada
Yep - looks like cowtown to me. :)
Veery veery nice
Thanks.
So romance
Your video doesn't show anywhere near the extent of the snowfall, which was actually about 13 inches, or 33 cm, as measured on my garbage cans when I went out to shovel on Tuesday.
Actually, this video was just the beginning of snowfall in downtown, check out my next video please with the full extent of the snow. Thanks.
th-cam.com/video/j-pjFh4VqRc/w-d-xo.html
Depends on where in the city. South and especially west (where it seems to almost always be worse) got up to 40 and the drift from the wind had snow piled up as high as the headlights and part way up the doors on my car. Snowblowers were stalling and my street was so bad even pickup trucks were getting stuck
Let's keep Edmonton dry lol😀
how about you can just keep Edmonton.
was this in downtown?
Our car got stuck 😅
That’s what the +15 is for...
th-cam.com/video/j-pjFh4VqRc/w-d-xo.html
Good morning kabayan merry Christmas 🎄 po, nasaan na kayo po
This city is so bad at clearing the roads, I can't go see my daughter cause of this crappy, her road is impassable lane way is terrible can't drive in it there are no trucks out there clearing the roads
The residential streets don't get snowbladed till day 3 to 4 of the 7 day snow plan so basically Christmas Eve and day. You should be able to access those side roads after that. Of course if you had studded winter tires, it wouldn't be a problem. Chains works well too but with chains you can't drive faster then maybe 20 km/h and since the major feeder roads have been plowed on day 2 of the plan, you'll be stuck with putting on and taking off the chains repeatedly or simply driving at a crawl the entire way. I was tempted to put on the chains on day two after this snowfall but I just let the car's electronic traction control thrash and almost not kept up. Plenty of cars stuck though on days 1 and 2, and even the 4 wheel drives were having difficulty, had to help dig out a Amazon delivery minivan that tried doing a three point turn (he should've just drove up onto the shoveled driveway and then backed out onto the road instead of risk stopping off the crown of the road). Studs are certainly the way to go and modern studded tires have retractable studs so they no longer damage dry asphalt.
Sure some prairie cities have more snowplows than Calgary and some cities grade and sand the alleys which is where many people's garages open up to but remember, a snowfall like this will cost about a million and a half for the city to clear. It's worth being patient to try and keep those costs down.
@@johnwang9914 so obviously they don't care about Xmas dinner for some families, I was supposed to be having dinner tonight but can't park anywhere and can't keep my 4 ways on for 2 hours so other cars can pass me, this is the worst full dump of snow we have had in a # of years but not at Xmas very disappointed in this city, the plan should have had an exemption in this case, so now I can't see my daughter till sometime next week
@@glendabethwhittingham1696 You really can't expect mother nature to keep your family's schedule and do you think it would be right for the city to spend 4 or 5 million dollars over the 1.5 million the current seven day snow clearance plan just to keep your Christmas dinner plan? If you really must get in, go to a car dealership and take a four wheel drive vehicle out for a 24 hour test drive or just find someone more prepared for heavy snow then you are to drive you in, simple studded tires should do fine. Even tire chains will get you in and out albeit at less than 20 km/h.
@@johnwang9914 where have you seen retractable studs,
@@gq-cw6xi Ever since the Scandinavian countries mandated that winter tires be studded, the market has been full of studded tires with retractable studs. Of course, these would only be with factory studded tires, field installed studs are often still just studs. If I was to look at winter tires today, I would seriously look at Nokian which was the first company to come out with retractable studs.
www.nokiantyres.com/innovation/research-and-development/the-world-s-first-winter-tyre-with-retractable-studs/
Maybe you should learn how to google...
That was the most backwards snow brush work. Cleaned the hood and windshield 3 times and not finished yet. Shameful
Just fooling merry Christmas 🎅