Below, a useful observation by French-language Weather
Network: when the temperature is very cold and it snows,
the same amount of liquid can create up to twice the snow
cover. This is because the snow is lighter and won't compact
down. We thus have blizzard - and white-out - conditions.
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I've been haunted by the Westboro bus crash in Ottawa. What
was a double-decker bus doing servicing rapid transit to the suburbs?
Here in St-Jean, the city buses are different from the commuter
buses to and from Montreal. One gets shuffled around on the city
buses, which make frequent stops. The true commuter buses - while
not having seat belts - do force everyone in a face forward-position,
and one doesn't move around much in the seat.
Seat belts have made a great difference for automobile safety. Driving
a vehicle at high speed should not be done with moving cargo!
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