I cannot comprehend it. I just can’t.

Because of yesterday’s devestating snow storm, it seems as if people have decided that today is a province wide snowday. Here at Liberty Tax, the customer flow rate has gone from the rapid-fire arrival of clients seen on Tuesday and Wednesday, to the trickle of customers from my first two weeks here.

From reports that I have heard, it seems that people all over the province are simply taking the day off, and staying at home. And I can’t understand why. In Toronto, these actions are easily justified. In the GTA, city clean up crews have been working since the early hours of the morning (4AMish) to clean up the devestation that followed the storm. Downed power lines, flooded streets, and debris in the streets were commonplace today in the Toronto area. But not elsewhere.

So why then are Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge residence phoning in as if it were a snow day in elementary school? Even one of my mother’s colleagues who lives in Shakespeare refused to risk driving in because of alleged treacherous roads. My father and I drove to Shakespeare this morning without even seeing snow or ice on the road.

Even last night, the weather was not devestating in K-W. It was worse during the day on the highway 7/8, where a tractor trailer actually flipped off the road and into a ditch. But, considering the bulk of traffic drove home in the bad weather in the afternoon, the roads were practically empty and hazard free on the evening drive home.

All of the reaction today to the bad weather continues to confuse me. We are Canadians people. We live in the Great White Fucking North. Giant piles of snow on our roads? That’s how we roll. That’s how we do things up ins. If you are born and raised in this country, you should be an extremely adept master of the drifts due to the snowfall we get.

I know how - down in the States - they get 3cm of snow and everything closes. But here? We’re Canadians dammit. We keep on trucking regardless. Our national slogan should be equivalent to the Postal Service. Not rain, nor sleet, nor snow…or whatever. This storm was not nearly as devestating as the ice storm in Montreal all those years ago, but people are treating it as if it was worse.

Come on people. Tough it out. The problem is not the weather. The problem is that some of you like to drive 140km/h in poor conditions, when the speed limit is 90km/h. And as a result of that, more of the sensible drivers are afraid to get on the road. Because it is not the skills of the speeder that makes it so he lives. It is the caution of those around him staying out of his way.

Anyway, there is supposed to be fog tonight. Watch that shut everything down too.