winter

Here’s a great sign that went up this week outside of St. Richard’s Anglican Church on Merivale Road. ( Click here for more great/funny/unusual Ottawa signs. ) [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130413_143534.jpg) "Whoever's praying for snow please stop" ...

Here are a couple of photos (shot by @andrewcnice ) of an OC Transpo bus hit by a “tidal wave of slush” during the afternoon commute. Yikes. (Here’s a story about it from the Ottawa Citizen.) Bus-ted! Another shot of the 93 bus windshield after getting hit with a slush wave! ...

Great montage of photos from yesterday’s snow, by Luciana Nechita . (From the OttawaStart Flickr Group .) [ ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/luciana_nechita/8560090692/) ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa Weather Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...

Kyle Smith sent us this timelapse video from yesterday’s snow storm. This is a view looking west along the Ottawa River. Every second of footage equals ten minutes of actual time. (Original video is here.) ** See also: ** Ottawa Weather Guide ...

This photo kind of sums up the day, doesn’t it? This pic was taken around 4:45pm near Baseline and Greenbank. The 118 Hurdman got stuck and some helpful Ottawans pitched in and pushed. No word if they were successful. They were successful. ...

Earlier this month Samsung sent OttawaStart a Samsung Galaxy Camera . Ours to keep, as long as we snap some photos at Winterlude and share them with our readers. Here are some of my pics from a visit to Jacques Cartier Park this afternoon. ...

Earlier this month Samsung sent OttawaStart a Samsung Galaxy Camera . Ours to keep, as long as we snap some photos at Winterlude and share them with our readers. Here are some of my pics from a quick one-hour visit to Winterlude downtown today. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/icehog.jpg) _ Ottawa _ A near-frozen skater on the Rideau Canal survived the icy temperatures by slicing open a nearby IceHog mascot with a skate blade and crawling inside it’s warm innards this morning. With temperatures in Ottawa around the -31degree range with windchill, some ill-prepared skaters on the newly opened Rideau Canal ice surface suffered frostbite and in this case, near death. ...

Here are some beautiful photos of Winterlude from Luciana Nechita via the OttawaStart Flickr Group . If you have a great photo of Winterlude, add it to the Flickr group or email feedback@ottawastart.com [ ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/luciana_nechita/8441412078/) [ ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/luciana_nechita/8441409494/) ...

As of this morning, the entire length of the Rideau Canal is open for skating . All 7.8 kilometers. OttawaStart reader Tim Bouma sent us this video from last year. He skated from Dow’s Lake to downtown and recorded the trip using a GoPro camera. ...