So it's been Winter for a good month now here in Canada, but the weather has been rather nice with very little snow and clear roads. That all changed when old man Winter finally raised his ugly head last week and threw a blizzard my way. The end result was predicable, drivers swerved off the roads and hit lamp posts, trees and each other. What surprises me is that snow falls every year, at the same time every year, at almost the same rate every year. Yet people are still unprepared for it every time a storm like this hits the area. It's not like the snow sneaks up on you, I mean this isn't Southern California. I'm not talking about immigrants either, I'm talking about people who grew up here and lived here for years and decades.
I guess it's sort of like how a smoker goes for a smoke and realizes they forgot their lighter. I'm puzzled about how that can happen, I mean for a smoker, smoking is a daily habit. There is absolutely no reason why a smoker should forget their lighter. There is also no reason why Canadians should forget that snow makes the roads slippery.