stoney

Yes, seen a lot more being installed last few years for sure. Can’t work a flooded field.

I would say the newer subdivisions where farm fields once were do a good job of managing water run off with the drainage ponds they incorporate into the design of the subdivisions. Bigger issue is the older areas. We have drainage ditches and the Holland River just down from us, when the sky opens up and dumps some water in short order, man does that river increase in size pretty quick. Other areas like ours that is older, do not have that and the water must go somewhere.

Yep, been quite a few people put in bad situations with the old systems not able to support the new rates of increased precipitation coming down in much shorter windows!

Perhaps our resident ambassador Nunz can do a showcase video for POO as well! Maybe already has.....not sure. I just happen to receive the email from Doo the other day and figured I would share and add a bit of sledding content during the off season.

Something a little more sledding related from a lady local to our neck of the woods. https://ski-doo.brp.com/ca/en/discover-ski-doo/original-series/iconic-sleds.html?bid=481451906&cid=DM310618&mvo=%40gy0riWxSKSNBplDjYCQzfQ%3D%3D

Well, if the ditch increases in size, so must the culvert to match the flow rate, otherwise Houston we have a problem….. These adjustments in water drainage systems, aside from mitigating risks, is from what appears to be the extreme weather systems we have seen also in the last decade. Im not sure if we receive more precipitation, but it sure does come down in much larger amounts at once then I recall it ever used too on more frequent basis.

Higher road would equate to deeper roadside ditch for sure....simple math with or without an ENG abbreviation on your signature or that pinky ring.....lol. I would say most, if not all municipalities have focused a lot more the last decade or so on cleaning/clearing out & in some cases deepening most drainage ditches then they ever did before.

Oh no, toilet paper is in a category of it own.....those are bare essentials!

LOL - no, not for us at all! Way better in terms of scraping down to the gravel all the way to the ditches.......cannot afford any law suites now a days.....

One more thing added to list that differ from ON to QC - efforts to ensure the roads are entirely cleared to avoid liability issues. I know we had more snow years ago, but I am sure all can remember the roads are cleaned way better now then they ever were in the past......used to be considerations for sledders, all but gone now in ON.

Ontario and Quebec are so different, why would permit rates be close to the same. Totally different way of thinking, approach to life, spending habits and cost of living. Are the upcoming permits prices always out this early, seems earlier than normal? Ontario releases theirs, around Sep?

Cannot recall a MAY24 weekend that nice in a while.....but my memory has failed me before..... Heat is welcomed as is the nice weather considering we have hardly strung together many nice days up to now - lots of rain though.... Good for the bugs, good for ater temps, etc..... I was anticipating a crappy summer since the winter was, who knows though.

I think some of the "kids" you speak of are making some pretty good coin with the jobs out there, if they were smart and willing to work......I see my nephews and their friends, some are doing okay. Not to suggest they are not living a fine line, but I think we all did until we were in what our 40's, where we started to see some "financial freedoms".....but the youger kids of today are for sure living a finer line with everything costing so much & getting some help from ma and pa.

Yes, the 50K savings used as the down payment......

That is part of the problem, too many are now in the game to make money with no or little thought to the ripple effects that greatly affects the generation beneath them - the me, me society we have become..... Sadly, I really do not see how there is going to be that drastic a correction at this point to fix things.