Posted on 03/20/2017 9:54:47 AM PDT by jerod
'I've lived here 50 years and no, we've never had anything like this,' deputy mayor says
Another winter blizzard is hitting Churchill, where people are already desperate for groceries that have been delayed since the last blizzard two weeks ago.
"A lot of families are suffering because they have young children and they need milk," said local resident Lana Bilenduke.
No bread or vegetables are for sale at the local store and meat is scarce, she said.
"Everyone's in a crisis until we get our groceries in."
The northern Manitoba town is in the midst of near-zero visibility, wind gusts of 90 km/h and wind chill values in the –40s due to an intense low pressure system over Hudson Bay, according to Environment Canada.
The blizzard conditions should ease late this afternoon or early this evening.
The forecast calls for five more centimetres of snow, on top of the 60 cm that fell over three days during the previous blizzard. The town has been under a local state of emergency since then.
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Yeah but it won’t last for months/years of however long it takes for Venezuela to have full grocery stores again.
That's why I say the Canadians need to be off the metric system. If they were on the English system that'd only be 60 mph winds and temperatures of...oh...yeah, -40s.
The creepiest line in the novel World War Z was when the narrator, a little girl, describes the resolution of the starvation issue in an RV campground (in Canada) full of stranded refugees. "By Christmas there was plenty of food." And, ah, fewer refugees...
I’m seeing a beautiful hooded fur coat there!
Or Meals on Wheels from the bear’s point of view.
My uncle made big bore rifles up to .700 Nitro Express. One of his clients used a .460 to bag his polar bear.
I shot a .585 when I was younger. Would probably break something if I tried it now.
And this is why no one moves TO Churchill.
5cm is 2 inches. 60cm is 2 feet.
2 inches of snow doesn’t qualify for a “blizzard.”
Imagine trying to hoist a polar bear onto a Gator. With other polar bears appearing out of the swirling snow.
Where would you butcher it? A tarp over the living-room rug?
Amen..... Why eat apples or broccoli when there’s polar bear?
I’d like to live in a place like that, but properly prepared. Like, with a years supply of of food and fuel on hand, a couple KW of solar, and a big stack of books. Well and the innerweb of course for FR ;-)
Because of peculiarities in the cartridge and the rifle itself, it can't be loaded "hot" and the muzzle energy is far below the .30'06 Springfield and even somewhat below the .308 Winchester. I have heard it described as about equivalent to the .30-40 Krag - but I have never owned or fired one of those.
While the .303 has been used on dangerous game in Africa, I'm inclined to think that the persons involved just got lucky, and for every lucky fellow there are probably a hundred unsung nebbishes who wound up being grease under the hooves of a Cape or between the toes of an elephant.
Absolute minimum for any bear larger than ordinary black bear in the lower 48 (for which .30'06 or .308 are perfectly adequate in the hands of a decent shot) would seem to me to be at *least* a Remington 7mm magnum, or one of the old big, heavy cartridges like a .415 Rigby. Just about all the pro guides in Africa now carry .458 Win Mag - just in case.
My dad bought a .348 Win (one of your old big heavy brush-bushing cartridges) for my mom when they were planning to hunt Kodiak bear in Alaska. He was about to buy a .375 H&H for himself when they turned up pregnant with yours truly and the hunt had to be scrubbed.
He used to look at me occasionally, shake his head, and ask sorrowfully, "Why couldn't you have waited til I got the H&H?"
The bears are perusing at a Chinese buffet.
8>)
But he was a remarkably good shot.
I’m guessing the hooded part is what is attractive to you, poobear. 8>)
wow,the .700 is a rare and expensive rifle.1000 grain bullet at 2000fps,the recoil must have been brutal.
We need to take responsibility for our own safety and well being.”
Amazed me when Ike hit on the Texas Gulf the number of people who waited around for FEMA to bring them something as basic as bottled water.
Have Manitobianites never heard of powdered milk? or evaporated milk? or condensed milk? or diy rice milk? or yeast? or flour? or sourdough starter?
Talk about embarrassing.
There once was a fella named Jack 'something or the other', I don't remember his name but he wrote really good books on hunting game all over the world... I think he was in love with the 270.....
Anyway, his recommendation was 1800 foot pounds at the point of impact on dangerous game... Or maybe it was 2000....
Whatever..... But those numbers can be used to determine if you have enough gun at any given range for large dangerous game....
Except BEARS. Bears just kill you.
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