Category: storm

Digging out in Kitimat

Kitimat blizzard and blackout February 5 to 9, 2015

A “Pineapple Express” brought a major blizzard to the Kitimat region last week, dropping approximately 180 centimetres of snow from the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015 until the skies cleared late on the afternoon of Saturday, February 7. In my neighborhood, the power first went out at about 3 pm on Thursday, came back […]

Old Burial Ground Cambridge

Harvard Yard in the Boston blizzard of 2003

Boston, like Kitimat, is buried in snow.  I was in Boston, staying in Cambridge for a conference, when the region was hit by a blizzard in December, 2003. According to the Boston Globe, the area has received 196 centimetres of snow so far this winter (77.3 inches).  Kitimat got about 180 centimetres  (70.80) inches during […]

Storm over the Skeena River

Storm warning on the Skeena

On Thursday, October 3, I drove to Prince Rupert for an appointment. With heavy cloud cover on the way into to Rupert I didn’t get much of a chance to shoot the fall colours which are just beginning to peak on some parts of the Skeena (but not everywhere, due to micro-climates you can drive […]

Always carry a camera, Kitimat snow storm Nov. 29, 2010

That’s about 29 centimetres of snow piling up on a tree,  luckily framed by a red brick wall at the back of a local mall, Nov.  29, 2010. One thing I learned back on my first job as a two-way  man (reporter-photographer) on the Sudbury Star was always carry a camera.  It was in 1975-76 […]