Snow Squalls

I went to Calgary on Wed to visit my brother and his wife. It was a nice drive but I noticed that there was a lot more traffic on the road than there used to be when my parents lived there. Of course, that was a few years ago.

On my return home, I hit a squall of snow/rain mix coming across the Deerfoot and for 15 minutes, I could hardly see the cars and trucks ahead and beside me. There was so much water on the road and coming down that my wipers could hardly clear the window. It was almost impossible to keep within the lines of the road. I was literally 'on a wing and a prayer'! That was the longest, scariest, hardest stretch of travelling that I have ever done! It was like being in a big snow cloud of rain and snow and it seemed like it would never stop. The traffic did not slow down, the trucks kept passing and showering everyone with all the slush from the road and only a few of us in cars actually did try to slow down for the road conditions. However, you could not really slow down too much as the flow kept you moving. I honestly thought we all were going to end up in one BIG bunch of metal smashing into one another and going over the embankment!!!! It wasn't until the town of Innisfail that the snow/rain/mist/cloud lightened and you could actually see ahead and around you. Perhaps these spring squalls are more common in Calgary as most drivers didn't slow down at all. Although I thought about getting off the Deerfoot Freeway, visibility was so poor that I couldn't read the signs or see the turn offs until the last moment, so I just stayed in wht I thought was the middle lane and kept going (like everyone else)!  I guess you just HAD to keep going. I was definitely driving 'blind' in that snow storm.

However, from Bowden north the roads were clear and so was the sky. What a difference a few miles made. By the time I got to Edmonton the sun was shining.

Today, the sky is blue, the sun is shining but the weatherman tells us we can expect another 5 - 10 cm of snow starting tonite and into the weekend. Hopefully, he will be wrong.