Mostly for
sabatoa and
darkbay: photos from the bitter cold we got last week, and a few photos of the snow today. This first one is from the dark, morning walk to work that produced my new icon.
Just as I was leaving work that day at 4pm, temperature -40 (all of the next 8 are from that walk):
Ice fog that has collected on the bridge over the Yukon River:
Ice chunks floating by in the river below:
2nd Avenue - probably the busiest street in town:
Main Street:
One more icyJosh:
Hawkins Street:
This one is of the parking lot at the mini-mall that night. People idle their cars while they go in a lot here because unless you have an outlet to plug into, restarting it when you come back out is dicey:
And here are a few for
darkbay, who was asking what "a lot of snow" is by Yukon standards. This is what it's like out there today after some more snow the past two days, and this is what we would call a lot of snow so far for the winter:
On my street:
The upstairs neighbours' vehicles in our driveway, which have not moved all winter: