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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Mr. niteowl77
Upon visit to Alaska I discussed the “stop a bear” question with park ranger. 12ga w slugs was the recommended medicine. This was for stopping a menacing bear, not shooting one at hunting ranges. For that I’d want NLT a .300 win mag and preferably .338 or .375
Bears bears. Black bears are much smaller and a 30-06 is quite sufficient. However for brown bears I wouldn’t hunt with anything less than a truck mounted Browning M2.
My uncle had a hard time finding strong enough wood for the stock. English walnut, cut from the lowest part of the stump they can get a piece. Not cheap stuff. A few grand for basically a 3" X 6" chunk of wood long enough for the stock.
The "VH" is his/our two-word last name initials
The thought of firing a rifle and having the stock come apart is pretty frightening to me.
That's true. There are no roads to civilization (you can't drive to Winnipeg) but there is a train. When I went there in 1997, one of the locals told me that the rich people fly into Churchill and every one else takes the train.
It is indeed a very remote place, but it is one of forbidding beauty. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Unc would hold them around the corner of his house to test fire. Big man, incredibly strong. Amateur weightlifter in his younger days. Skinny nerd-child until he found Charles Atlas on the back of a comic book
Duh. We are in an Glaciation Period idiots. Normally the Earth has no ice at its poles. Only during the Ice Age periods does it occur. You better start stocking up for next winter cause you aint seen nothin yet.
Agreed.
He was a big advocate for .270 Win - to the point of silliness sometimes, I think. But he was a good enough shot that he probably could have gotten along on most game with a .22 short.
Absolutely. 8>)
I used to listen to the CBC on SW, aka RCI, and there was a piece on dinosaur hunters hitting Northern Canada during the Summer.
They were always in groups of at least five leaving the protected camping area, and there was at least one high-powered rifle in the group.
They found that PBs tended to leave groups of people alone, and the rifle was for any maverick PBs.
They will have to go ice fishing or seal hunting!
LOL. Funny. :)
Are you some sort of pervert or just trying to be funny?
I wear fur. So effing what? Jackass!
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