# An Egyptian immigrant to Canada tells of her first encounter with snow

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015 "2023-01-30T03:31:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/21 "2023-02-01T22:05:06Z")

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That top picture looks like the driver might have his high beams on. Very bad idea in heavy snowfall. You’re just blinding yourself. Low beams and low speed is the way to go.

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/22 "2023-02-01T22:20:21Z")

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Another Canadian’s view of winter:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PUOF0LMYkdk/maxresdefault.jpg "If Canadian Winter Had A Video Game") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUOF0LMYkdk)

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/23 "2023-02-01T22:34:04Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> But quite disappointing to see how quickly it became dirty and slushy the next day.

But that’s usually caused by humans moving around and polluting the environment, so cut Mother Nature some slack.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/24 "2023-02-01T22:39:27Z")

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That makes sense then. It’s the Inland Empire, not Los Angeles.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/25 "2023-02-02T15:17:04Z")

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It snows in the Inland Empire regularly. Granted, not at the elevation of Chino. But I get snow pretty much every winter for an hour or so. Never sticks, but it looks pretty (from inside a heated house while sipping on hot cocoa.)

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**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/26 "2023-02-07T15:30:03Z")

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I’m sorry, I don’t think a discussion of snow in Canada is complete without a reference to the Maritime Bhangra Group - [Snow Shoveler Bhangra || Maritime Bhangra Group || Halifax,NS || Canada - YouTube](https://youtu.be/eHhKMu8jrfw)

or to Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon - [Bhangra in the Yukon Snow - YouTube](https://youtu.be/W7z4if3AtoU) .

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**Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-egyptian-immigrant-to-canada-tells-of-her-first-encounter-with-snow/979015/27 "2023-02-10T00:23:40Z")

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That’s fabulous. Thanks for sharing.

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