Weekend Plans
This seems like a good idea.
I mean, there’s plenty of snow to make it happen, and you’d be taking advantage of the winter weather.
Have a great weekend, Edmonton.
Wind!
I think we’ve had just about enough of windstorms for this year, don’t you?
Sally snapped that photo, above, in Old Strathcona. The older trees are really taking a beating.
While walking home last night I encountered this giant branch, which was blocking the sidewalk. It had been ripped from a street-side tree.
Over at the Edmonton Sun, they’ve got their own slideshow, with some good pictures of people’s hair and hats.
That’s hot
That ice cream is so icy.
It was so hot this weekend…
(pause for you to yell “How hot was it?”)
It was so hot, we considered buying the freezer burnt ice cream behind this sheet of ice at a certain convenience store whose name consists of rhyming numbers.
It’s also that time of the year people crank up the air conditioner.
Some people are crafty about it though. People like pam_i_am.
Not only did she concoct an air conditioning unit that includes a table fan, a cooler full of cold water and some copper tubing, she even has a shopping list for those of you looking to stay cool while testing your Tim Taylor abilities. Genius!
Okay, so WTF was up with Saturday Night?
The Saturday night view from the balcony of my Whyte Ave. apartment.
Good morning gang, and congratulations on surviving the wind-pocalypse that occurred over the weekend. I personally spent the majority of the night hiding under my bed, Scooby Doo style, trying to remember whether in case of tornado you should or shouldn’t go outside, or into the basement, or stand in a doorway. So I may or may not have spent part of the evening standing, in the dark, in the doorway of my bathroom. But that’s neither here nor there – what IS both here and there (and everywhere) is tree debris. Man, it was like a tree genocide out there.
Branches flying near Whyte Ave,
..and then the hail started.
one of a million busted trees throughout the area.
city workers cleaning up the mess near 82 St. and 126 Ave.
Whyte Ave. tree carnage continues.
More broken trees in the North end
Yikes.
Image: Environment Canada
Like there wasn’t enough of a storm brewing at City Hall this week……now there’s a tornado watch. (See what I did there?) Probably best to stay inside and follow @mastermaq’s live-tweeting of today’s council proceedings (it’s under hashtag, #ecca).
As Monsoon Season in Edmonton Continues….
Yesterday I mused aloud whether anyone was actually coming out to the Street Performers’ Festival in this rain. Hats off to our new friend Trevor (follow him on twitter or check out his website), who did me a solid by providing evidence that street performers are, in fact, impervious to the rain.
In Case You Haven’t Noticed….
…it’s raining like a mo-fo.
‘Bout time. This picture comes from our good friend Lorraine, over in Beverly. Thanks muchly!
I, myself, took a stroll past Churchill Square this morning around a quarter to 12, because you know, Street Performers’ Festival, and it looked like a ghost town: (more…)
