snowmageddon 2010
Snow days, we all remember them! Waking up before school to find out that school’s actually been cancelled, my favorite part about that was being able to go back to bed. I remember first thing in the morning I would check outside my window and if I saw what I thought was 3 feet of snow, I would rush to my mother.
Every snow day that we did have, my brother and I would always go outside to the front, geared up in our snow suits, and stay outside all day. Making snow forts and snowmen. I specifically remember losing our white dog in the snow all the time.
My dog would just be absorbed from the snow. Sitting in front of the fireplace, with hot coco in my hands and fuzzy sucks on my feet, watching my favorite holiday movies, snow days were always my absolute favorite.
Matt Kyle, freshly graduated from high school, takes us down memory lane of what he remembers of snow days.
“Well, in all honesty, I would say that most of my snow days were pretty decent. And I enjoyed all of them because it was time off of school. I always went outside and I always play with my dogs in the snow. We would one time the one year we built like a giant snow for it in the backyard. And that was pretty cool. It went along the whole line of our fence. So, it felt like I was in the war. Oh, pretty dope.”
Over 10 years ago, London was hit hard with a snow storm. We like to call it Snowmageddon. Between the days of the 4th and the 8th of December, Huron and Middlesex in southern Ontario was covered in 177 cm of snow. Although Matt was very young at the time, he still remembers bits of Snowmegeddon.
“Yeah, not fully just because I was a lot younger when it happened. But I do remember that it was a couple of days where we were off of school. That was pretty dope in my opinion, a lot of snow, a lot of snow. I do remember that it was just constantly snowing and there was like, I don’t even remember how tall it was, probably like up to my knees at one point of just straight snow, it was just insane.”
Snow days has always been the highlight of a child’s week. Waking up to find out that there’s no school! Older kids would simply go back to bed, but the young ones? They get geared up in their snow suits at 7 in the morning and stay outside all day, playing in the snow.
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