DIY Blog » montreal http://www.diyblog.net Do It Yourself. Because you can, want to, or can't afford otherwise. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:42:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Snowstorm in Montréal, part deux http://www.diyblog.net/2008/03/10/snowstorm-in-montreal-part-deux/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.diyblog.net/2008/03/10/snowstorm-in-montreal-part-deux/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:23:49 +0000 diyblogger http://www.diyblog.net/2008/03/10/snowstorm-in-montreal-part-deux/ The Aftermath:

Snowstorm in Montréal, part deux

I don’t have any pictures as eloquent as this one; what my parents saw when they opened the door on the morning after the snowstorm! I was lucky enough to avoid this sort of thing because the wind was blowing the other way.

All in all, we got about 30cm, or 12 inches of snow. This was the second “thunder-snowstorm” this year. I never saw those before this year.

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Tonight, I’m staying in because of the snowstorm that rages outside. We’re getting close to beating the 1970-1971 record of 381cm of snow for the winter. Before this storm, we were at ~320cm. I guess one more should do it. This is the 8th we’ve had this year, most boroughs in the city have already spent their 2008 snow removal budget (which also covers the beginning of next winter).

Hard to believe that in 4 short months it’ll be 30ºc outside!

Yeah, so instead of proposing you a DIY project tonight, I’m proposing you stay in and do nothing constructive.

See you on monday.

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The first – and hopefully not the last – edition of BlitzWeekend will take place this Weekend in Montréal. BlitzWeekend is a gathering of developers, geeks, technologists an entrepreneurs, divided into small teams, which each must design, build and launch a product in 48 hours!

Can’t wait to see what will come out of that.

Sad thing is, I can’t attend as I already had plans which make it impossible for me to attend or participate. I’ll definitely take a rain check though.

Sorry – I made a mistake: the event will take place on the weekend of march 1st.

site: http://blitzweekend.com

wiki: http://barcamp.org/Blitzweekend1

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