Nova Scotia. The weather here is somewhat warmer and moderate compared to Newfoundland.

She was not lying as even the wife remembers being able to touch wires if you wanted to do it was possible when she was a child. The climate change that currently raises it's head had already occured here some years ago.

Many winters you could get by without snow tires now. It would not be wise but possible. Currently or at least for a lot of recent winters.

It is much much worse on the american eastern seaboard to the south of us than here now. I am nor quite sure why this has occured or heard a description of why. Yet it has.

My guess is that it may have to do with the gulf stream in some way changing. Yes the old girl was certainly being accurate. Something like that today would tie us up into knots as all the really heavy snowplows where retired and never replaced. They would have to bring in heavy construction equipment today to deal with the type of snow storm they used to have. Even wedge plows where still around here thirty years ago.

The danger today is black ice. White outs are not as common but another danger. We live next to a large flat marsh area locally that is still closed if the wind is pushing enough snow across it in the air to eliminate visability.