“Eyeing” the benefits of May snow

Thursday May 9, 2024

I dug out a photo montage that Janine Angela Musolino Sanford posted on my Facebook page a few years ago.  It’s a picture from her family photo album.  You’ll find her grandparents, Harold and Iris Johnson, and in the bottom left photo her great-grandfather Gerald A. Hatter – shovelling snow on May 10, 1972, at the corner of Isleville and Stairs Pl in the Hydrostone in Halifax, N.S. How much snow fell?  Too much for May.  Halifax banked the most snow that day with a whopping 27 cm; Sydney followed closely behind with 25 cm.  Parts of the Annapolis Valley were shovelling out from under close to 20 cm that day. 

May snow is never welcome, even by me, and I love snow. There comes a time when you need to move on…put away your boots. Here in Atlantic Canada, we don’t often get through the…