{"id":502,"date":"2004-02-20T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T19:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=502"},"modified":"2006-01-01T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T15:11:31","slug":"february-19th-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"February 19th Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>S<\/span>ince Nova Scotia was dilligently attacked by the Evil Low Pressure Depression Snow Forces &trade;, yesterday that is, brave Nova Scotians and a Permanent Resident took up their arms and <a href=\".\/wp-content\/blitz\/meandneighboursdigging.html\" onclick=\"window.open('.\/wp-contentblitz\/meandneighboursdigging.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">started digging<\/a>. As in, &#8216;Yes sir, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/personal\/melookingatcamera.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/personal\/melookingatcamera.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">right-away-sir&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>After an hour and a half fight with snow, windgusts and barking dogs, my wife and I decided to tour around and see what kind of damage was done.  The Esplanade, for example, was <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/inglisplace.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/inglisplace.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">completely trenched in<\/a>. The damage at the RBC bank was substantial too, but apparently over there the battle took <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/meatrbcbank.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/meatrbcbank.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">a &#8216;Midway&#8217;-like turn<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>All was well at Sobeys and the Ponderosa. It was here where the Snow Forces apparently were cornered by a <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/ponderosa.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/ponderosa.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">guy with a red nose<\/a> and red hair.\n<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/310princestreet.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/310princestreet.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">as<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/library.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/library.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">you<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/walkers.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/walkers.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">can<\/a> see from these <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/brunswickstreetchurch.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/blitz\/brunswickstreetchurch.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">pictures<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I hear there&#8217;s another storm making landfall this weekend. This is going to be jolly good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Nova Scotia was dilligently attacked by the Evil Low Pressure Depression Snow Forces &trade;, yesterday that is, brave Nova Scotians and a Permanent Resident took up their arms and started digging. As in, &#8216;Yes sir, right-away-sir&#8217;. After an hour &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}