So I'm sure all of us are aware of the winter storm that started off in Texas and made it's it was to the North East and up in to Canada this past Friday.
Once it moved in to Canada Southern Ontario was being hit by heavy, blowing snow and freezing rain in some places. The was expected to ease off by the evening hours as it headed eastward towards the Maritimes. It did ease up but the snow was still falling in to the overnight hours. Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec were expected to get between 30 -35cm of snow through Friday evening.
The final snow fall amounts were 29cm for Quebec and 27cm of snow for Ottawa, Ontario (Where I live).
I'm not sure how many people on this forum are aware of this, but I am on contract with both TWN and TWC as an ENG (Electronic News Gathering) shooter which basically means in the event of severe weather I am called and asked to shoot the weather on camera, I have been doing this for nearly six years now.
Thursday night I was assigned the storm, and was out with my camera kit.. 1 camera, 8 batteries, and 6 hour long tapes at 4am Friday morning, even though the snow did not start until about 10:30AM. The day ended for me at around 10:00PM last night, and then this morning I shot some aftermath stuff for about 30 minutes.
My footage went on air nationally yesterday on both networks everyhour, and this morning... It's still airing from time to time as I type this.
Here is a video montage of some key points from yesterday / today:
Thanks for reading!
