OMG I've Been Challenged....
By Sparks
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
Regina, Saskatchewan
January 15, 2009 5:12pm CST
....to write a story about the weather and make it not only interesting, but funny.
L*u, this one's for you!
Everyone knows that Canada is all snow, ice, igloos and polar bears, right?
WRONG!
It's also wind, rain, torrential mountain run offs (floods for those of you wannabe nature nuts), scorching heat and high humidity.
In Alberta for example, there is a saying "Wait ten minutes and the weather will change" You can go from cold to warm to hot in the space of 20kms.
Here in Saskat. we say "Move to Alberta if you want variety" LOL
In Ontario city dwellers panic at flurrys that melt on contact and the salt trucks come out in droves to snarl up traffic and ruin your car's undercoating.
In B.C. you can ski in your shorts, but leave off the toques fellows, it's NOT a good fashion statement!
In Quebec they make a living selling winter clothes all year round to Americans convinced the next best ski hill is just waiting for them in JULY!
In the Eastern Provinces, if the fish are biting who gives a damn what the weather is!
You can't trust what the weatherman says in any country. But if you watch American border tv, you can be pretty damn sure they're blaming CANADA!
So, how's the weather where you are, and are YOU blaming Canada? ROFL
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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15 Jan 09
Hi Sparky,
The weather is mostley cold, we only have two weeks of hot weather in the summer then rain like mad, but we don't really blame any country for it maybe sometimes America, lol! love and hugs.
Tamara
xxxxxx
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Jan 09
LOL, well if you blame America and America blames Canada, then aren't you also blaming Canada..............wow, that was easy to type but hard to think! ROFL Hugs.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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15 Jan 09
Hi Sparky,
Ohhhh sorry lol! never thought of that one but its what people say, I don't even much about the weather and where its coming from, lol! Love and hugs.
Tamara
xxxxx
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Jan 09
They also say 'into every life a little rain must fall'.....guess they've never been to Canada in the Spring! LOL
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@rezax123 (395)
• Norway
16 Jan 09
Its a New News for me. thanx. but i m not shocked. in my country. the weather change any time. u cant tell anything. here there is not so cold or hot. so the weather can move any direction easily. u cant be prepare for any thing. it can be rain in any time. even in the winter.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Do you live in Alberta? LOL Just kidding. What country are you in rezax?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Years and years ago I traveled through your lovely country en route to Nepal.....I was part of an Out Reach group. It was fascinating! Thanks for letting me know.
@p3halliwel2005 (3156)
• Philippines
16 Jan 09
LMAO...Weather here in the Philippines have been cold lately but just the ordinary cold compared to Canada. My sister is working in Canada and she's in Ontario. She said weather there was so very cold. And NO I ain't blaming Canada for the weather where I am because your a gazzilion miles away from our country.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
I'll bet your sister is blaming Canada for the weather though! ROFL
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@lisa0502 (1724)
• Canada
15 Jan 09
I would definately say that you have an acurate description of Canada there....LOL. Especially in Alberta because that is where I am from. Also in Alberta if you so choose to you can just travel an hour or so north or south and the weather is total opposites...LOL. Ya know that yesterday us here in Alberta were above zero while in Winnipeg they were at something like -28 or so. Crazy.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Jan 09
Well hello Alberta! LOL I used to live there too.
Last night where my hubs is working in southern Saskat the temp. got down to -59 because of the wind chill factor! Can you imagine? lol Poor guy is soooooooo fed up with winter! He's home now and glad to be missing those temps, as our home is 'north', smack dab in the centre of Saskat., but he's got more snow to shovel here than down there. lol
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Jan 09
You got that right! The weatherman says it's supposed to be even colder tonight.......but then, weathermen lie don't they? ROFL
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
15 Jan 09
That was a very good story. Well written and informative. I really had no idea that Canada had that much of a variety of weather. I guess I always thought of Canada as a big frozen country.
Speaking of countries I just came from another discussion where the poster was calling Canada a state, like one of the United States? Go figure! 
He had it in the right category to.
He had it in the right category to. 1 person likes this
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Oh too funny you guys. I guess a lot of places don't teach Geography and more eh?
I mean, Canada is the SECOND LARGEST country in the world for crying out loud! But Australia in Europe. Austria will have a heart attack when it hears that! LOL
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@mentalward (14691)
• United States
15 Jan 09
Hahahaha! I saw a post where the writer said she wanted to go skiing in Australia, you know, that country in Europe with all the snow. 
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Hate to tell you this, but Canada doesn't have a monopoly on weather change. That's the best part of living in Iowa! No matter how awful the weather, just wait a bit and it will change. It can be below freezing, but 2 hours later it's thawing.
My favorite was the beautiful week in May. It had been a glorious summer week, school was almost ready to be done, and we had a blizzard. (Many, many years ago) It was hilarious! All those kids ready to be done for the summer, and they had to go a couple extra days because of the school closing for the blizzard.
Northern Iowa, it takes quite a bit to close school or call off work. We used to accept it as a given, 2 inches of snow is nothing. Now southern Iowa, people are freaking out if it starts shooting a few flakes. School closes just because it's "going to" be freezing rain. They don't even wait to see if anything happens.
Can you imagine California? Eek! It's a snowflake! Close the highways!
Blame Canada? I revel in the variety!
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
We don't have a monoply? How can that be? We're the second largest country in the world! LOL
I revel in the variety too. I lived in the topics for a long time. The only way you could tell the changing of the seasons was that the predominant colour of the flowers changed.....
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
16 Jan 09
That would be so BORING. How can you enjoy the perfect day, if there are only perfect days? You have to experience a range to be able to say, "This is a perfect day."
@xbrendax (2662)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Of course we blame Canada! I live in Ohio and you are just above me, ha ha ha! Just kidding, I blame the jet streams! And right now we are having a terrible blizzard, we are buried under 13 inches of snow and the temperature is 6 degrees, thanks Canada!!
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@xbrendax (2662)
• United States
17 Jan 09
You better not! Yesterday I had to WALK to the store and take a SLED instead of my car, that's how bad our weather is! Ha ha ha! I am not kidding! I loaded all my groceries on the sled and dragged it all the way home, boy was I ever tired when I got there! Again, thanks Canada!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Oh, not so fast brenda! We're having a storm here too and our snow is already over three feet deep and the temps are going down to more than -40C depending on the wind chill, and I'm sending it YOUR WAY! ROFL
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@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
16 Jan 09
Well you already know the weather in Alberta LOL and I am blaming canada yes because it is where I live LOL You are just a hoot and so are the people that think we are all about igloos and polar bears LOL
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@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
16 Jan 09
HAHAHA that would have been sooooo funny to see LOL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
I watched an Eskimo lady on Price Is Right once smack the heck out of Bob Barker when he asked her what it was like to live in an igloo! No kidding. She got so upset. Told him she lived in a house like normal people and that even her grand father (the woman was about 50 or so) didn't know how to build an igloo but could build a pretty damned good house! It was priceless!
I lived some where were they said that about the weather changing every 10 min.
and cant blame the weather on Canada when it really come down the trough. from over Alaska and Siberia!@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
FINALLY! An American who puts the blame where it belongs. What really makes me laugh is when people from Ontario blame Alberta when the famous Alberta Clippers sweep across Ontario. LOL Those clippers originated in Alaska! ROFL
@tammyr (5946)
• Etowah, Tennessee
19 Jan 09
It has been SOO cold Everywhere in this part of the US the past week!! We haven't been as bad as the people in the northern sates but we did have schools out one day for frigid temps.
Of course I had to work 
It would have been nice to get the day off too!!
I don't know if I could make the weather seem interesting. You have your job cut out for you on that one GOOD LUCK hun!!
It would have been nice to get the day off too!!
I don't know if I could make the weather seem interesting. You have your job cut out for you on that one GOOD LUCK hun!!@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
19 Jan 09
We actually got to 2 degrees above zero today and it's been so balmy I even thought of taking out my shorts and running through the snow covered streets! LOL But I would have had to arrest myself for indecent exposure! ROFL Nice to see you.....
@moondancer (7433)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Hell yeah we're blaming Canada...at least that's what the weather man says. We are getting a "Canadian Artic Blast" that is sending our temps below zero tonight and we had snow today. We're freezing our a**es off in the daylight hours from the cold cut throught you winds that are just hanging around even though the sun is out trying to fool us into thinking it's warm as hell outside, so go on step out and freeze your a** off cause it looks just sunny and beautiful out there. ROFL
But really it's all true. That's what they are saying and that's just the way it is.
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@moondancer (7433)
• United States
16 Jan 09
yes, I know but I don't think the weather men know a damned thing about what they are talking about. lol They just blame it on Canada you all just get the short end of the stick. I sent you an email with some pics a friend in Ohio sent to me. It's way to funny. I loved going to Canda when I lived in Dearborn Michigan many many moons ago.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
I got the pics and email and called my auntie. She's still above snow thank goodness. Lot of old folks in Orillia who hate the snow but won't move! Silly old people! ROFL
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
LOL, But Canada isn't ALL Artic. Some of it, actually most of those Artic winds, come from Alaska and the last time I checked, that was U.S. territory! ROFL
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@olivemai (4738)
• United States
18 Jan 09
I do not blame Canada!
Blame has nothing to do with it.
It is useless too!
Oh Canada!
how strange the weather seems to be there.
Our weather is similar in that it can change every day, from one minute or hour to the next.
we do not blame Canada.
We blame global warming caused by bad government policies.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
18 Jan 09
LOL Olive, I wish we could blame global warming, but our weather has been like this since the last ice age...........*sigh*
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
15 Jan 09
Welllllll, that cold air DOES come down here from up north!
But, I don't blame Canada. I blame the American government! They shoulda built a 'weather retaining wall' centuries ago along the American/Canadian border!!!
Nah, just kidding. But you can use that in your weather story!
It's darned frigid outside right now! 17 deg. F and falling. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 16 with a low of 1. ONE!!! That's not normal for Virginia!
I just had to go out to pick up a precription and I must've looked like Nanook of the North!!! All bundled up, face all but obscured with a scarf, hat, gloves, boots, the works! You see, the wind is blowing so the wind chill makes it feel even colder.
Okay, okay, so I'm a cold weenie! I admit it. I'm not ashamed! I don't know how those guys in Wisconsin or Minnesota handle temps dipping way down into the negative numbers! Oh, no! Just put me on a stick and call me a mentalsickle!!!
But, I don't blame Canada. I blame the American government! They shoulda built a 'weather retaining wall' centuries ago along the American/Canadian border!!!
Nah, just kidding. But you can use that in your weather story!
It's darned frigid outside right now! 17 deg. F and falling. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 16 with a low of 1. ONE!!! That's not normal for Virginia!
I just had to go out to pick up a precription and I must've looked like Nanook of the North!!! All bundled up, face all but obscured with a scarf, hat, gloves, boots, the works! You see, the wind is blowing so the wind chill makes it feel even colder.
Okay, okay, so I'm a cold weenie! I admit it. I'm not ashamed! I don't know how those guys in Wisconsin or Minnesota handle temps dipping way down into the negative numbers! Oh, no! Just put me on a stick and call me a mentalsickle!!!@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Jan 09
I LOVE the idea of a weather retaining wall, so yeah, I blame the American government too! I do! I do!
Wow! It felt sooooo good to say that! ROFL
Mentalsickle, you are a 'cold weeny' for sure. Last night it got down to -59C in southern Saskat. with the wind chill. When it get 'up' to -10C here we take off our scarves, gloves and hats and go out and enjoy the balmy weather! ROFL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Well that settles it. I'll have to come where you are, because you'll never be coming here! We THRIVE on minus weather! LOL
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@mentalward (14691)
• United States
15 Jan 09
Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!!!!!! Minus ANYTHING makes my brain want to shut down for the winter!
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We blame either the Pacific Northwest (mostly Washington) or Mexico @sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Well the Pacific Northewest blames Canada! HA!
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Well we are BIGGER THAN YOU! LOL So why not bigger weather too! ROFL
@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Let's not forget the Alberta Clipper that is currently attacking my house in Michigan. What the h3ll is an Alberta Clipper??? It sounds like the name of a ship. I don't live anywhere near a sea port. I don't see any ships pulling up in my backyard. LOL All I know is it is cold. Very cold. I keep reminding myself that Spring is coming. I hope Spring gets her soon.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
LOL, It does sound like a ship doesn't it? I always think that too every time I hear it. Too funny, and yes, Spring soon please!!!
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
16 Jan 09
[i]Hi Sparks,
wow..that was a great information...LOL! I don't blame Canada for this...But, I do know who is to be blame...hahahhaha...We had 0 degrees F last night and I was wrapped like a gift!
Just too cold![/i]
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
We had -34 with high wind chill factors and the snow turned to sleet last night. Not fun.
But lots of sunshine today, and no shoveling to do. YEAH! Doing the happy dance....LOL
@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
16 Jan 09
I think you just wrote your weather story. :)
I blame Canada for everything as I sit here and it's 17 degrees below zero here and dropping. This is horrible. Thanks Canada!! LOL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Canada says maybe if you weren't so skinny you'd not mind the cold so much! ROFL
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
LOL, you're SUCH a Brit, P1ke! Very clever.
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
16 Jan 09
"Wait ten minutes and the weather will change" You can go from cold to warm to hot in the space of 20kms. This sounds like the high plains of West Texas. Nope, can't blame our weather lately on Canada. You're getting all the moisture. We're just getting one cold front after another, with warm-ups to spring temps in between. Of course we don't have any -0 temps in the daytime, but it's the wild swing in temps that gets to everybody.1 person likes this
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
"The High Plains of West Texas"...........that sounds a lot like where I live in the Prairies. In the summer we can get tremendous heat, and then whoosh! Cold air streams sweep across and we're all rushing indoors because the temp drops in a heartbeat.......
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jan 09
Glad you enjoyed it chris. How's the weather where you live?
