{"id":143,"date":"2017-01-22T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasaga365.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-02-17T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T19:13:34","slug":"week-of-january-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wasaga365.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/22\/week-of-january-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of January 15th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weekly Temperature<\/caption>\n
<\/th>\nSun<\/th>\nMon<\/th>\nTue<\/th>\nWed<\/th>\nThu<\/th>\nFri<\/th>\nSat<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>\nJan 15<\/td>\nJan 16<\/td>\nJan 17<\/td>\nJan 18<\/td>\nJan 19<\/td>\nJan 20<\/td>\nJan\u00a021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\r\n
High<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\r\n
Low<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n-3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

The third week of my daily walks down Wasaga Beach saw some welcome warm weather followed by an impressive\u00a0ice storm.<\/p>\n

It’s unusual to have so many warm days in January.\u00a0 I guess\u00a0global warming is the new reality.\u00a0 By January 15th the snowmobile trails that cross the upper part of the beach were turning to mud.<\/p>\n

There is still ice on the shore as you can see\u00a0(to the left in the picture below).<\/p>\n

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I decided it was safe enough to venture out to the edge of ice to have a look given that last week was cold and the ice had retreated back close to the shore. Note all the slush and ice chunks floating in the picture below. \u00a0This picture is taken looking towards blue mountain which is visible in the distance.\u00a0 You can kind of see why they call it blue mountain!<\/p>\n

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With warmer weather, the beach was\u00a0challenging\u00a0to walk on.\u00a0 This picture below was\u00a0taken mid afternoon January 16th looking west. There was still ice on the beach a slick of water on top\u00a0made footing treacherous.\u00a0 I made it the whole distance, but decided it was probably a bad idea.\u00a0 I need to survive the year without a sprained ankle if I’m going to keep this resolution after all.<\/p>\n

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January 17th was even worse. The schools were closed due to an ice storm. \u00a0(I think our fourth day schools were closed from the start of the month).\u00a0 The picture below was taken from our front yard. You can see the ice on the driveway.\u00a0 Footing was even more treacherous and they were asking people to stay off the roads\u00a0so I didn’t venture out on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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I realized there would be some days when\u00a0I couldn’t make it down the beach (such as when I was travelling for business or when there\u00a0is extreme weather) so\u00a0I decided I’d need to go twice some days to make up for the days I could not get down there.\u00a0 So my policy\u00a0was revised to\u00a0365 walks down the beach in 2017, but not necessary a walk every single day.<\/p>\n

We had some excitement due to the ice storm early morning on January 18th (Wednesday). I awoke a few times after midnight as our power was flickering off and on.<\/p>\n

When the power failed for the second time around 1:00 AM, in the dark of night I could see\u00a0what looked like reflections of\u00a0flames on the ice outside our front yard.\u00a0 I was convinced our house was on fire, so I\u00a0woke up Michelle and Jamie in a panic.<\/p>\n

Turned out the issue was a block south of us.\u00a0 A downed hydro wire was arcing on Sunnidale lighting up the sky just south of Wasaga Sands.\u00a0 I got there just as emergency vehicles were arriving. They were crawling because the roads were treacherous. \u00a0Nobody was hurt thankfully.\u00a0 We got power back a little after 4 AM. \u00a0The pictures don’t to this justice, but in the black of night with no streetlights, the whole sky was lit up.<\/p>\n

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January 18th (below) following the adventure the night before was a little better.\u00a0 I managed to get down to the beach and walk my regular route although there was still a lot of freezing rain and ice.<\/p>\n

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January 19th and 20th (Sunday \/ Monday) conditions were about the same. The weather was warm and the beach had become pretty muddy.\u00a0 I set my camera up on a sign post near beach two and took the picture below with the camera delay setting.<\/p>\n

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I managed to walk down the beach every day for the balance of the week and made some evening trips as well to beach 6, but as you can see below the conditions were pretty horrible.\u00a0 Foggy and in places very muddy.<\/p>\n

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