[jacquesm]

Funny you should post that. I was travelling by car near Cap Chat when that hit and it wasn't amusing at all.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cap+chat+quebec&oe=utf-8&aq=t...

The st. Lawrence river might just as well be ocean for the purpose of driving along the shore road in winter, in the middle of a snowstorm like that it really makes you wonder what the hell you were thinking of driving there in winter.

I went there to visit a huge VAT ('eggbeater' or Darrieus rotor windmill), I should have kept a better eye out for the weather reports rather than to keep on driving, and I only caught the tail end of it. Live & learn...

(someone else's picture of the windmill: http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman_76021/555075211/ )

It's an interesting experience to try to dig out your car before the next snowplow comes along.

[davidp]

Completely unrelated: I zoomed out on your Google Maps link and saw a suspiciously circular lake formation:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cap+chat+quebec&hl=en&ie=UTF8...

Yep, it's the 4th most powerful known meteor impact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur_Island

I love Wikipedia.

[jacquesm]

Go to Sudbury, Ontario for an even larger one! (they're still mining that one today).