Snow-Mageddon?

Published by Toronto Mike on December 18, 2008 @ 10:32 in Toronto News ~ Toronto Focus

snowflake Environment Canada is calling it Snow-Mageddon. Tomorrow morning Toronto will get 15cm and they're calling for another snow storm on Sunday.

Isn't "Snowmageddon" a little dramatic? 15cm tomorrow and a bunch more on Sunday makes for crappy driving conditions, but we've been through so much worse. Last winter, for example..

If we're calling this Snow-Mageddon, where do we go from here? Snowpocalypse? Snowocaust? Snow-Hope?

We should have saved Snow-Mageddon for a bigger storm...

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17 Responses to "Snow-Mageddon?"

Andrew
December 18, 2008 / 10:57

I'm waiting for the often used and overdone joke about Toronto bringing in the Army.

It will be a lot of snow. We are in Canada for crying out loud. We're supposed to get a lot of snow.

Mike from Lowville
December 18, 2008 / 11:05

The potential is for up to 2 feet in some areas. I had to laugh when Matt on channel 11 said "Snow-Mageddon" though. If 2 feet of snow does drop on the GTA, it will be a good thing that it happens on the weekend. You know, experience shows, when there is major hype for anything it usually fizzles. I have the sleds ready to ride, just in case. If there's something in your backyard you may want to get to, best pick it up or, at least identify it with a stick! ;O)

Toronto Mike
December 18, 2008 / 11:14

As long as I can make it to my hockey game at 10:15pm tomorrow night...

Mike Kic
December 18, 2008 / 11:17

As long as it doesn't prevent me from seeing Malkin and Crosby take on the Leafs in Pittsburgh, I'm happy.

Toronto Mike
December 18, 2008 / 11:25

Kic, that's sweet.

Let's make it four in a row.

Buffalo Boy Mike
December 18, 2008 / 11:37

Anything short of Blizzard of 77 or the 84 inch week long lake effect event we had a few years ago will be a disappoinment in B-Lo

Stephanie Wilkinson
December 18, 2008 / 13:14

Buffalo Boy, didn't you have a major snowstorm a few years ago on Christmas Eve? They're calling for that for us here too. I think the snow-mageddon includes the Tuesday-into-Wednesday system as well.

elvis
December 18, 2008 / 13:51

Hopefully there is enough snow so they have to cancel Christmas (but not Festivus).

Heather
December 18, 2008 / 14:04

I landed here from your TV Time Machine tags - and I feel as if you must have been right there next to me in the livingroom watching those programs! I'm still wading through them! THANK you for posting this all online!

As for snowmageddon - nah, media are SUPPOSED to sensationalize it. I was flipping stations this morning on my way to work and someone was announcing "A really bad snowstorm is expected to hit this evening with anywhere from ONE to FIFTEEN centimetres of snow!"

Uh, one or two centimetres doesn't constitute a really bad snowstorm, imho.

Now I'm going to plug through the rest of your site! Awesome stuff!

LEW
December 18, 2008 / 15:02

The benifit concert to help shovel you out will be Snowlapolloza

Buffalo Boy Mike
December 18, 2008 / 16:10

Yeah we had a week where we got 84 inches that was Christmas week.
We had a Thanksgiving week storm too back in 2000

Buffalo Boy Mike
December 18, 2008 / 16:12

Lew Im liking that Snowlapolloza idea, who can we get to play it?

Toronto Mike
December 18, 2008 / 16:16

Snow Patrol!

VegasGeoff
December 18, 2008 / 17:45

Yesterday, up to 10" fell in parts of Las Vegas.