The western and northern areas of Manitoba got slammed with a powerful blizzard over the last couple days. Luckily it just missed Winnipeg and the southeast corner of the province. Now it’s time to dig out and wait for the melt and the inevitable floods.
Brandon, Manitoba
Crystal City, Manitoba
Above and below: St. Leon, Manitoba
Thompson, Manitoba
Somewhere in southern Manitoba
BBC
A Canadian town has apologised after a water treatment plant turned the water supply pink.
Residents of Onoway, Alberta, complained to the town office when taps began running pink water on Monday.
In a statement, Mayor Dale Krasnow said there was no public health risk but the town “could have done a better job communicating what was going on”.
The mayor said it was the unfortunate side-effect of a common water-treatment chemical, potassium permanganate.
The chemical is commonly used to remove iron and hydrogen sulphide from water, and the town office said it got into the reservoir when a valve malfunctioned during “normal line flushing and filter backwashing”.
“The reservoir was drained, however some of the chemical still made it into the distribution system.
“While it is alarming to see pink water coming from your taps, potassium permanganate is used in normal treatment processes to help remove iron and manganese and residents were never at risk.”
The chemical can cause skin irritation, according to the World Health Organization, but there were no reports of any adverse effects.
Complaints were more about being kept in the dark – residents said they were annoyed they were not told why the water was fluorescent pink until Tuesday morning.
“This is a situation we can certainly learn from and develop a strategy for better response and communication should we ever face the same or similar situation in the future,” the mayor said.
The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the presence of rivers and swamps, forces engineers to go deep underground. The Arsenalna, a station on Kiev Metro’s Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line, is such an exception.
Arsenalna station is located 105.5 meters below the surface, making it the deepest metro station in the world. If you made a vertical shaft on earth as deep, you could drop the entire Statue of Liberty into it and still have more than twelve meters of headroom left to drop other stuff. To board a subway train at this station, commuters have to take two seemingly never-ending escalators to the bottom. The journey takes up to five minutes.
The mother of all escalators.
The world’s second deepest metro station is located on Saint Petersburg Metro, which is one of the deepest metro systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of all the stations. The system’s deepest station, Admiralteyskaya, is located 86 meters below ground. The Saint Petersburg Metro including Admiralteyskaya has some of the longest escalators in the world, exceeding 130 meters.
Damn those Russians build massive sturdy escalators!
The former Soviet Union has some of the most deepest underground metros in the world. Park Pobedy, located on the Moscow Metro, lies 84 meters underground, warranting it the third position in the ‘list of deepest metro stations in the world’. The Moscow Metro is also the deepest in Russia, having a maximum depth of 97 meters.
Like many Russian subway stations, Park Pobedy is beautifully decorated.
Yet another contender to the title of the world’s deepest metro system is Pyongyang Metro, in North Korea’s secretive capital city, with tracks lying at over 110 meters underground. Commuters ride down to the Puhŭng Station—one of only two that foreigners are allowed entry— on escalators accompanied by the “sound of revolutionary anthems booming from antique loudspeakers.” The journey takes nearly four minutes.
Because of its depth, the metro stations double as bomb shelters, with blast doors in place at hallways. The metro is so deep that the temperature of the platform remains a constant 18°C all year.
Another classic hit where the 6’5″ 260 pound Buff sent an Edmonton Oiler into sandman land.
Justin Trudeau is 6’2″. Same height as Trump. Trump is listed as 6’2″ most of the time. Sometimes he is listed at 6’3″.
Then there are the really tall ones.
FBI Director James Comey is 6’8″.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is also 6’8″.
Number 42 Nathan Gerbe, 5’4″. Winnipeg Jet, Blake Wheeler 6’5″.
Some guys just go a bit too far.
Winnipeg Jets White-Out!
Jets Stadium game in Winnipeg.
Parasaurolophus PARR-ə- SAWR-ə-LOH-fəs; meaning “near crested lizard” is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–74.5 million years ago. It was a herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.
They thought it was Extinct!
The Parasaurolophus are able to live in a wide range of habitats. The only apparent requirements are a source of water, food, and a protected area for raising hell. The best habitats are hardwood swamps, floodplain forests, fresh- concrete balconies, and sewers and urban tunnels. On the prairies, the parasaurolophus’ are most abundant in woodlot and wetland areas. This highly adaptable reptile is also very common in many cities of North America.
As with home ranges, parasaurolophus densities vary significantly depending on the type of habitat. Estimates of five to 10 Parasaurolophus per 1,000 square kilometers are common in swamp infested backwoods country.
The urban parasaurolophus is always creating havoc with civic officials. Leading to responses by para-military forces.
They have been spotted swimming with other species.
The diet of the parasaurolophus is mainly fish, but it will attack almost anything unfortunate enough to cross its path, including dogs and cats, small ponies, porcupines, humans, and other parasaurolophus. It will also scavenge carrion, and can eat up to half its body weight at a feeding.
Some of the beasts have a penchant for beer.
They have shown a tendency to enjoy snow.
The creatures are highly intelligent and have attempted to disguise themselves.
They will take cover when attacked.
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