Here, this afternoon, is what Kingsway in Vancouver looked like just as we were driving up the long, slow hill into Burnaby—notice there is no snow at all:
Mere minutes later we near the crest of the hill near our house in Burnaby, and it looked this way:
We needed the extra grip from the snow tires to get up our steep driveway. In Greater Vancouver, a few metres of extra elevation make all the difference.
Labels: snow, vancouver, weather