Mild winter, Canada?

I think you must have given Japan all of your snow. How inconsiderate of you. Japan is a lot smaller, you should know that we can't handle all that snow.

In all seriousness, though, Japan has been having major disasters due to heavy snow. Not around here. The most we've had is some light flurries. At seven am today the temperature was down to -5 which seems to have broken the norm for the past five or ten years (Or so I've been told. I haven't been here that long) which was to hover around -1.

However.

Up north there have been train accidents, avalanches and houses collapsing due to snow piling up. Several people have died this week, and more are homeless or injured.

We see the delays from the trains due to the happenings of up north. Some trains have even been cancelled. It wasn't particularly fun to wait for the train only to have the sign change to 5 minute delay, then to 10 minute delay and from there it went 15....20...30...1 hour... it just kept adding up. I probably could have walked home faster than waiting for that train.

I feel terrible for those people who have to suffer through whatever is going on with the weather up north.

It made me wonder if Canadian houses were built with that in mind. If a snow storm ever happened and there happened to be a ton of snow on the rooves of houses.

Random, off topic side note: Why does spell check think that roofs is the correct plural form of roof? I've looked it up. The Oxford English Dictionary clearly states that the plural form is rooves while the more widely used roofs is slang and is only accepted reluctantly.