{"id":7580,"date":"2014-02-05T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2014-02-05T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:31:05","slug":"snowmageddonapocalyptofinitusfinitatus-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7580","title":{"rendered":"Snowmageddonapocalyptofinitusfinitatus 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the problems with the downtown core is a lack of land, which often leads homeowners to do what I call pushcart clearing: you take a shovel, you push it forward, and after making what looks like a flat gully in one pass, you go back inside, satisfied the narrow trail will suffice for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

Anyone who grew up in the ‘burbs or 905 where driveways are big \/ deep \/ wide knows it makes sense to clear the load to ensure it’s less of a headache later on. Translation: do it right, and clear things so it’s more than a passable walkway, day & night. It stops the buildup of ice, and also looks nice when there’s a clean wide passage leading to a home’s major entry points.<\/p>\n

This is what lay before me around 12:30pm<\/p>\n

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Yes, another shot from Life 6 Feet Under<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And this is how it looked when done properly:<\/p>\n

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Ah, clean non-litiginous steps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wide enough for an elephant, if not you carrying groceries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After shoveling the snow to the house’s small garden, I trekked to get rid of some errands, and continue taking snapshots of the area using a small Canon that did extremely well <\/em>in bright light and wet weather, but faltered with shitty batteries (OEM and non-OEM) which couldn’t handle Canadian winter.<\/p>\n

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Broadview subway station<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Always liked the way streetcars, buses, and cars leave unique tracks in the snowy mush:<\/p>\n

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Streetcar!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Big City Bus!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Automoboobles!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And then there’s the small laneways where snow blows crazily and assaults poor passersby.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can't see the lonely man?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Like this guy.<\/p>\n

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Ya! I see him!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Parting Shots A:<\/p>\n

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Wanna picnic? There are no wasps today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jimmy Durante was wrong: the millions are under the big 'V'.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I think it's protecting the graffiti from city pinheads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blustery drifty snow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I did get my vegetables, fruits, Fisherman’s Friend, and managed to entertain and scare people with a full beard speckled with snow. The drugstore clerk was disturbed, so I kept smiling.<\/p>\n

Parting Shot B:<\/p>\n

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Not Muskoka. DANFORTH!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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— 30 —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating \/ whatever stills menagerie of the snowstorm that hit Toronto, taken in & around the Danforth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2501,2502],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1Yg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}