Port Alberni is closed. Try again tomorrow.

Today, for the first time in quite a while, I was scheduled to present my online security seminar.  It's not the CISSP, of course, but I always enjoy teaching, any subject, at any level.

It is snowing in Port Alberni.  The roofs, streets, and fields are covered in two inches of white, and any normal imperfections are covered over.  The flakes are still falling gently, hushing normally harsh sounds into silence.

It is also silent because, whenever it snows, Port Alberni is closed.  Everything shuts down.

I am assuming that my seminar is cancelled.  Which is very disappointing.  I've had a pretty rotten couple of weeks, and could have used a boost.

As the only pedestrian in Port Alberni I am, of course, not subject to the limitations of mere mortals (read, "those who depend upon automobiles").  I can get out, and around, to anywhere I want.  But, of course, there is no reason to go anywhere, because everything is closed.

Because it is snowing in Port Alberni.

(Our snow clearing service, with it's usual skill for doing the right thing at the wrong time, plowed the lots at 4 AM, when there was only a couple of inches of snow.  Three hours later, we have another three to four inches, so what they cleared is actually less than what is on the ground, now, in the area they cleared ...)

Came down to the library and got a couple of things, since they said they were going to be open at noon.  An awful lot more sidewalks have been shovelled than even an hour and a half ago.  Those who have shovelled are getting an assist from the rising temperatures.  Those who haven't shoveled are going to get a bit of a shock when it freezes overnight.  Enough people have shovelled their walks that it is *almost* worth trying to walk on the sidewalks, but there is always that *one* guy who hasn't shovelled, in the middle of the block, which means that you have to fight your way through the snow banks onto the road.  Generally, you can walk down the road, but the compacted snow makes it pretty slippery.  The main streets are pretty good, but there is only one lane that has been worn away by the cars, so the cars are really aggressive about chasing you off the road.