From Here To There... Archive

Regina Bound

Heading out to our Bratt's Lake site, south of Regina for a few days. While waiting at the gate, noticed a lot of commotion down on the ground.

One of the ground crew guys was taken away in an ambulance. Closeup of the fire truck.

The weather in Regina was good when we landed and stayed that way through most of the day.

It was only about -25°C with the wind chill, so it wasn't much colder than what we left in Toronto.

As you can see there isn't much accummulation where it is flat, but once you stick an object on the ground, the drifts start to form.

As it turned out this was the only day with the sun.

Blizzard Conditions...

Woke up on Wednesday morning to a blizzard warning from Environment Canada. A blizzard warning is issued when winds of 40 km/h or more, are expected to cause widespread reductions in visibilities to less than one kilometre, due to blowing snow, for at least four to six hours. We made it to the site and finished up what had to be done, but had to leave early due to the conditions. The winds were averaging 44 km/h and wind chill values were -30°C.

I took these pictures from the warmth of the car while waiting for my sherpa.

Back in Regina, the conditions were much better and we were able to catch an earlier flight back to Toronto.

Cold in Kapuskasing

Drove up to Kapuskasing with a colleague on Tuesday. It is about a 10 hour drive from Toronto. We have a couple of sites to visit over the next couple of days. Kapuskasing is the site of the GM Cold Weather Development Centre. Temperatures hovered around -20 to -25 while we were there.

Tembec is the major industry in Kapuskasing. The mill specializes in stud lumber.

I tried to make it look like the the train engine was spewing smoke.

There is quite abit of snow on the ground, close to 1 metre.

This picture reminded me of the reflection you would see on a lake.

Gas prices up here reached 114.5.