Hikado

Vancouverites are living in a winter wonderland with all of the snow that it got in the past week. We are clearly not very prepared for snowfall, when it comes in the Lower Mainland. Several schools, colleges and universities were forced to shut down, because they could not keep up with the snow storm.
Our weather has just been irraticatic for the past month or so. First, we had several weeks of heavy down pour and this led to numerous cases of flooding, but the most inconvient effect was the boil water advisory. Turmidity levels in the vancouver, burnaby, and survey reservoirs had high levelS of turmidity in the drinking water. All residents were told to boil their tap water before they drink from it because the GVRD was scared that there may be micro organisms that could be still alive and harmful if they are consumed by an individual with health problems. After the rain started to let up, the temperature dropped and the next thing we know is there is snow in the forecast.
I do admit it is nice to see the snow lining the barren tree branches and sidewalks. It just adds to the spirit of Christmas, although it would have been nice to have the snow fall during the week of Christmas, so then we can say we had a white Christmas, but I suppose we can not complain too much.