Halifax, NS. March 26. The Day of the Storm.
Halifax was expecting one of its worst storms on March 26. The pressure dropped so low and so fast that it was being called a double winter bomb. All flights, travel, buses, schools, services, etc., were announced to be cancelled the day before the storm was set to hit as weather forecasters were calling it one of the worst winter hurricanes that Halifax will have seen in 50 years.
We had an incredible amount of snow Wednesday morning followed by very strong winds (about 100 km/h). In Halifax we did not lose power and there wasn't any destruction or fatalities that I know of. People were over prepared for it and in the end it turned out to be not as terrible as what had been forecast. A guy from New Brunswick told me that Halifax gets 4 or 5 like this every winter and that it wasn't as terrible as people had expected.
Other parts of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Capre Breton in Nova Scotia apparently had it worse and they really lost power and their snowfall was more significant. I survived the storm by staying indoors most of Wednesday and coding/reading stuff for my dissertation. I went outside briefly but you couldn't see very far. It was unfortunate because it looked beautiful despite the destruction that these events can sometimes bring. I guess all beauty has the potential to destroy you.
Sometime in the afternoon
