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For at least a few hours, it looked like a winter wonderland on Vancouver Island’s normally temperate South Coast as Greater Victoria got its first significant snowfall in more than a thousand days.
The snow started falling overnight and kept on falling in many areas.
“We seen it coming down last night so when we got up this morning it was twice as bad,” Langford resident Beatrice Hansen told CHEK News.
In Mill Bay, the winter wallop meant ducks were left sitting on ice as ponds froze.
In Shawnigan Lake, all the snow piled up on the dock had to be shoveled and across the region, there was a lot of shoveling to do.
“We came from Ottawa so doing this is a regular occurrence so it’s not bad doing it once in awhile,” one man joked.
But when it comes to driving in it, the lack of snow experience can lead to lots of problems.
Emergency crews rushed to several accidents in the Capital Region, including a rollover crash in Saanich just after 9 am.
With several centimetres of snow on the ground, cars were sent spinning and some even needed to be pushed down the road.
But the storm was exactly what forecasters had warned us about.
“We saw the Pacific moisture meeting up with the ridge of cold, Arctic air and we had our snow event,” says Environment & Climate Change Canada meteorologist Armel Castellan.
The B.C. Legislature was blanked in snow as seven centimetres fell on Victoria — a new record for December 9th.
But in the Capital, it quickly turned to slush and clean-up crews were hard at work clearing away the mushy mess.
“It’s actually not too bad,” says snow plow driver Jocha Sousa of Osmia Enterprises as he cleared a parking lot in the Hillside area. “The machine has more traction in the ground so we get to move a lot quicker.”
Crews are trying to get it all cleaned up before temperatures dip again Sunday night.
That’s when another cold snap is forecast to set in, making for some more unseasonable winter weather.
Courtesy of cheknews.ca
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