Join me as I brave Toronto’s massive snowstorm, with 25cm of snow blanketing the city! In this video, I walk through downtown Toronto, check out the flight cancellations at Billy Bishop Airport, explore the snowy Harbourfront Marina, and make my way to Tim Hortons in CityPlace. Watch as I navigate the winter chaos and share the sights of Toronto during this record-breaking snowstorm.
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Chapters: 0:00 - Intro: Toronto Snowstorm 2024 1:15 - Walking in Downtown Toronto 13:00 - Billy Bishop Airport: 75% Flights Canceled 18:00 - Harbourfront Marina in the Snow 24:00 - Dan Lackey Way to CityPlace 28:00 - Tim Hortons Stop: Warm Break from the Storm
hey guys just uh came out in the snow
and doing a quick video showing you guys
uh Toronto how it looks how Canada is
during the winter snowstorm and you can
see that the snow is really heavy right
now and the park and Roads and
everything is all covered so this is the
path next to my building and I'm just
going to try to walk a little bit and
see how things are going on
so here this is how actually the park
looks and you can see that uh it's
really bad snow so I'm trying to go uh
close to the lake and show you guys how
the lake looks right now and then we'll
walk up to the Tim Hons that's the plan
hopefully I'll be able to do it and see
uh this is my winter uh boot which I
haven't owned for I think the last two
years so I'm just uh I just took out
today just to wear right now uh because
I don't like uh I don't like to wear it
because this is kind of heavy so I
usually wear it once there's like you
know situation like this and we haven't
had uh this type of snow for a
while uh this is supposed to be at today
tomorrow supposed to be 25 cm snow or
even higher and you can see that the
cars are coming I'm going to just go off
the street to let the cars go so the
snow trucks and the snow uh clearing
vehicles I think they kind of gave up
they try to you know put as much salt as
possible to clear the street but I think
uh if it's swing like this it's really
difficult to keep clearing things so
this is the public transit
uh tracks uh 509 and 511 but I don't
think the street cars are running
because you can see that the tracks are
all messed up you can actually see
there's no like a track at all and the
electricity cable runs on the top but
you know the snow car uh the TTC is not
running and we are kind of walking on
the street because you cannot really
walk on the sidewalk so when the car
comes I'm going to have to just stay on
the side to let the cars go
through and even it's very risky to
drive in this in this situation so let's
try to go close to the lake and see how
it looks then I'm just trying to see if
I can go
uh into a team hon and get something to
like you have a cup of coffee a coffee
would be really good during this snow
and you can see this is the actual TTC
track and you can see that you know the
street cars are not running and is
really bad out here so I'm just going to
try to cross here but you can see that
even I cannot walk here so I'm just
going to walk along this way and you see
that it shows my marks where I'm walking
so let's just keep walking this
way and without the snow boots it's not
possible wearing regular shoes to work
in conditions like this
okay so there not many cars right now
because you know unless you need to come
out most people are not going to come
out in these
conditions there are lots of accidents
lots of things happening so I'm just
going to cross here and I'm just going
to
cross this way and you can see that this
this is the street right now really bad
condition so let's
walk close to the lake and see how is it
there there's a bike trail right here
but I cannot see anything and there's
the coronation park right there uh but
everything's right now looks white you
cannot see which one is what
so
let's walk a little bit
further and I'll show you guys the lake
I have an umbrella right here because
otherwise the camera lens is going to be
covered by snow within a few seconds uh
because the the phone is waterproof
which is no issue but you know St is
going to cover the lens and I'm going to
have to keep cleaning
so that's why I took the umbrella which
is giving me shelter but even with the
umbrella look at my jacket here so it's
all like you know getting
snow so we're going to hit the lake
within many few minutes and I think it's
all Frozen but we're going to see so the
thing is it's not really extremely cold
it's only
-5 it's not like you know - 30 or - 25
is kind of difficult to walk on snow I'm
getting
tired because you need more
energy to move your feet going
so I think dogs are really happy dogs
like snow I remember when there's snow
lucky likes to go out in the snow and
play but he doesn't like it when it's
raining lucky the M hit
rain I think a lot of flights are going
to get cancelled so I feel bad for those
people who are traveling during these
times this is the snow is going to
continue until
tomorrow so this is actually long
weekend in Toronto or in Ontario
Canada and I think people cannot really
enjoy the long C because of the
situation
okay guys so this is the lake look at
this this is all water but you cannot
see any water or anything it's all snow
now it feels like you can even walk on
top of the water so this is one Lake
right here and then there's the marina
and I'm going to go to another part of
the lake to show you guys a little more
so let's see if we can continue
walking the visibility is very reduced
you cannot really see the that much all
kind of like you know
snowy this really good
exercise I think without the umbrella it
would not have been possible to C it's
going to cover my head so good thing I
brought the umbrella
thank you
I see people actually some people are
jogging and look at the small mini snow
truck the snow truck got buried in snow
it cannot do the job anymore
that's a nice thing the snow tuck is all
ruined so this is the Little Norway Park
a park is like you know the snow took
over there's no more park right now
so and this is the city bike
so why don't we take a turn and go to
the B Bishop Airport and you know right
cut through by the airport to going to
the lake so that's going to be a nice
view and also we'll see if there any
people going to the airport or the
flight cancellations we can take a quick
look that's not a bad idea so here we
got the little
Norway
Park so I think at one point you cannot
even walk anymore
so take a look at this this is the
intersection and we're heading to the
Bishop Airport in downtown Toronto but I
doubt any flights are operating right
now everything probably just canceled
so this is the Norway Park from the
other
side I can see some kids are playing and
they're screaming I think it's a very
good time for kids so looks like the
airport Authority cleaned up this area
it has a little bit L SN
so these are airport shuttles which are
free and they like you know go to the
Union Station but looks like nothing is
working I see more shuttles most likely
they're not going
anywhere but I see some cars are coming
so I'm not sure that you know there's
some flights I'll see if we can check
take a look at the board
to
see I have a feeling some flights are
you know operational we can see a lot of
people are
coming but if they haven't canceled the
flight yet most likely they're going to
have to do that at one
point but this is a small airport in
down Toronto the big airport is the
Toronto Pearson Airport and a lot of
flights got cancelled there
so I'm going to see if we can take a
look at the flight chart and see how
many flights are cancelled how many
flights are
working okay so we are entering right
now and we're just going to see what's
going
on actually still oh man look at that
all like 50 no I'd say 65% canceled you
can see all those RS they canceled and
the yellows are
delayed and cancelled
cancelled the other language is
French so it's you know showing you both
in English and French so arrival and
departure they're all canceled or most
of the them are canceled so those one
which are not canceled yet I think at
one point they're going to be cancelled
and this is the airport fair you can
take but I'm I'm not sure if anything is
running here so this part of the lake
still there's water look here and that's
Billy Bishop airport just across the
water and I see some docks are swimming
they're having fun right now and that's
a Lake Ontario but partially frozen here
but the other side we saw it looks like
completely Frozen but this one is
partially frozen and this is where you
have to take these elevators to go
through the tunnel to go to the airport
but we are not going to head that way
we're just going to exit from this
part because you know uh we tried to
video here before they stopped us at one
point but right now I don't think
they're going to say anything because
I'm just kind of
exiting and and this is our exit point
so let's leave the
airport and here you get taxi so there's
a little Park here I forgot the name oh
actually the name is right here b key
common so this is just a recently made
newly developed Park very nice but
actually uh look at look at this guys
you cannot even walk
here look at this
really terrible
snow okay so we're just going to cut
through here and head
to the next station and you can see here
like you know it's very good in summer
you can have a seat have coffee and you
can enjoy the ambience but right now
it's all just snow and snow nothing else
and look that's where I'm walking and
look at my feet here but good thing
because of the snow boot I can feel my
you know my feet are still dry I it's
not wet yet so what I'm going to do I'm
going to just keep walking this way
and let's go to the other
street so here you have a nice view of
the lake and that's actually where the
plane PL uh ples land you can see right
there and I see like lots of snow trucks
cleaning the ice and you can see see
them moving like not one uh many many of
them but I think they're going to have
to cancel 100% of the flights at one
point so now we are at the harbor front
and I'm going to show you some boats and
stuff see and Tow is right there but you
cannot really see
anything I think I already had a workout
of my life
just trying to walk
here there's some artworks here and you
can see they're covered by snow as
well surprisingly the fair is still
working going to the airport from the
Billy Bishop uh
section uh before the water so I didn't
expect the fairy to work but looks like
this is actually the world's shortest
fairy ride I think it's just 1 minute or
couple of minutes uh and you can see the
distance is very narrow so very little
fairy ride but the other option you have
to go to the airport is to take the
tunnel we have videos uh going to the
tunnel on this channel we went to the
tunnel a few times before
before
and look at this here this really bad
here right
now so I'm heading to the team
Hortons get we'll get a warm cup of
coffee to gain back the energy and then
I'm thinking of doing multiple lives
which are going to be like you know
vertical lives on this
channel so guys my right and fingers got
numbed so I switch to left hand for a
few seconds and put my fingers in the
pocket to make it
warm and I'm going to take it out
shortly so if we walk on the street
straight up then we're going to hit Tim
Horton and that's the
purpose okay I took C my
hands
and here you can see that how it is
impossible to
walk I feel like I've been working out
for many
hours so look at the level the snow is
going above the bench level
here's the shuttle I was referring
before looks like some of them are
working and here's a view and you came
from
there this is the
marina so we're going to cross the
street at this point I'm not waiting for
any signal or red light
team hon just one more or said two more
blocks away
luxure Boulevard West and Dan
Ley
way you're going to cross
here this just cross I'm not following
any lights right now
so this is City Place there's a team
Haron just one block
away and kids are having fun
you can
see how it looks right now
so this is going up here a little bit
which is making me more tired
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and you can see the team Hons right
there we are very close
finally we have arrived at the team hot
coffee is going to be the best thing to
do right
now let me close the
umbrella you the there's certain spots
you
okay hold on a second
guys want to show you a quick look
inside so you can see how it
looks
so I'm just going to stop this video
here thank you for watching and I'll see
you in the next video