Personal Finance: Snow Day!
Yes the forecast “weather bomb” has appeared and dumped a bunch of snow on Ottawa, thus causing all drivers to lose their brains, forget how to drive in snow and the added excitement that even those who own snow tires most likely do not have them on their cars yet, so today will be a day for accidents and arriving very late at work, if at all (thus causing significant economic hardship for a lot of folks (ok, not really but I needed to connect it back to Finance somehow)).
This kind of weather excitement will cause the CAA to take hours to respond, due to their towing service being overtaxed pulling folks out of ditches, cause the police to answer hundreds of calls about accidents and will have Hydro crews out restoring power to lots of folks, so maybe it would be a good day to be Calm, and pleasant with everyone? Just an idea folks, we are all in it together!
It Snowed In Ottawa
Caution for Ontario Drivers
Put on your snow tires if you live around Ottawa is the first caution, because we really DO need snow tires up here (I don’t think I can convince folks from Toronto that, and if you live in Windsor or Niagara, yes, you can live with all seasons, I guess).
For those of us who can drive across a bridge to Quebec, here is an interesting quandary: Quebec has mandatory snow tire laws, are they going to enforce those laws for out of province vehicles? I would guess they might not, but you never know.
Markets Rebound
But is it a rebound or a respite? Very good question, we shall see, I have gone back in a little with some index fund purchases, but I am still not sold that this is the bottom, as I mentioned yesterday, I’ll tell you in six months whether this is the stock market bottom. The run at the end of the trading day yesterday was qutie astonishing, but we have seen these kind of runs as sell offs as well.
Frank Folds
For those in Ottawa you will be saddened (or happy) that Frank magazine is shutting down. Frank was a satirical paper that had a lot of “insider” gossip from Parliament hill and was funny only when it went way off the normal path and made outrageous statements, that no normal human being would think was “real news”, however politicians always thought it was, and their reactions were priceless.
Many folks in Ottawa have learned that if you drive in Quebec and your “tag” (date of expiration) on your car is the current month, the S.Q. will pull you over and if your registration is expired, they will hit you with a whopping fine (for driving in Quebec with an expired out of province automobile registration).
Cell Phone Usage Ban in Automobiles in Ontario
Since we are talking about cars, the Ontario Provincial government will make it illegal to be talking on your cell phone while driving your car (without a hands free device), but they have also added if you are TEXTing, doing e-mail on a Crackberry type device or a gaming device. I must admit I am guilty of this on occasion ad I welcome this law to stop me from being so stupid, however, for those of you part of the Crackberry cult, put the darn thing down! No e-mail is so important that you must answer it while driving at 100 KM/hr with your children in the back seat!
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October 29th, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Looks like a good day to stay home with eggnog (or just rum), candy canes, and Christmas carols.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:38 PM
It should all lt, but then again, who knows? Good on the rum however