PHOTOS: Greater Victoria enjoys a snow day

A worker gets creative amid Victoria’s snowstorm on Dec. 20 and uses a wooden sign to clear a path. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)A worker gets creative amid Victoria’s snowstorm on Dec. 20 and uses a wooden sign to clear a path. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
CITY SIDEWALKS ALL DRESSED IN HOLIDAY STYLE The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)CITY SIDEWALKS ALL DRESSED IN HOLIDAY STYLE The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)
The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)
The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)The streets of Sidney remain welcoming for some despite a significant snowfall overnight. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)
Goldstream Gazette reader Natasha Lynn Sheepy measures the snow in Langford the fun way. (Courtesy Natasha Lynn Sheepy)Goldstream Gazette reader Natasha Lynn Sheepy measures the snow in Langford the fun way. (Courtesy Natasha Lynn Sheepy)
Residents throughout Greater Victoria will have woken up to a similar sight, with many people’s cars buried under a considerable amount of snow on Tuesday (Dec. 20) morning. To paraphrase Jaws: ‘We’re gonna need a bigger brush.’ (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)Residents throughout Greater Victoria will have woken up to a similar sight, with many people’s cars buried under a considerable amount of snow on Tuesday (Dec. 20) morning. To paraphrase Jaws: ‘We’re gonna need a bigger brush.’ (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
The snow did create beautiful sights amid the chaos in Langford on Tuesday (Dec. 20) morning. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)The snow did create beautiful sights amid the chaos in Langford on Tuesday (Dec. 20) morning. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
WHEN SNOW FALLS, GO SKIING Reily Dahlman returns after making the most of the extreme weather with a roadway ski down to the waterfront on Dec. 20. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)WHEN SNOW FALLS, GO SKIING Reily Dahlman returns after making the most of the extreme weather with a roadway ski down to the waterfront on Dec. 20. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
It’s not often that Yates Street is quiet enough that you can stand in the middle of the road at mid-day, but that changed when Victoria was walloped by snow on Dec. 20. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)It’s not often that Yates Street is quiet enough that you can stand in the middle of the road at mid-day, but that changed when Victoria was walloped by snow on Dec. 20. (Jake Romphf/News Staff)
Crews dig out the Victoria General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)Crews dig out the Victoria General Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)
The view of the Trans-Canada Highway from the Helmcken overpass on Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)The view of the Trans-Canada Highway from the Helmcken overpass on Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)
Crews work to remove the snow that fell in Greater Victoria overnight and on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)Crews work to remove the snow that fell in Greater Victoria overnight and on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 20. (Don Denton/Black Press Media)
Goldstream Gazette reader Leila Rogers shares her morning coffee with a hummingbird on her balcony in Langford. (Courtesy Leila Rogers)Goldstream Gazette reader Leila Rogers shares her morning coffee with a hummingbird on her balcony in Langford. (Courtesy Leila Rogers)
The sledding hill in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport bustled Tuesday afternoon. (Submitted)The sledding hill in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport bustled Tuesday afternoon. (Submitted)
Who’s Next? The popular sledding hill in North Saanich next to the Victoria International Airport transformed its own type of runway following heavy snowfall Monday night into Tuesday morning. (Submitted)Who’s Next? The popular sledding hill in North Saanich next to the Victoria International Airport transformed its own type of runway following heavy snowfall Monday night into Tuesday morning. (Submitted)
Looking east toward Patricia Bay, the sledding hill near Victoria International Airport also offered scenic views. (Submitted)Looking east toward Patricia Bay, the sledding hill near Victoria International Airport also offered scenic views. (Submitted)
By mid-afternoon, the sledding hill in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport had also attracted a fair number of adults. (Submitted)By mid-afternoon, the sledding hill in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport had also attracted a fair number of adults. (Submitted)
All together now. Sledding in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport turned into a collective experience Tuesday afternoon (Submitted)All together now. Sledding in North Saanich near Victoria International Airport turned into a collective experience Tuesday afternoon (Submitted)
One Colwood family came prepared for the cold weather outside Colwood's City Hall. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Many made the most of a day off school by sledding at Wishart Elementary school in Colwood on Dec. 20. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)

Dogs are among the first to shun or shine on snow days.

While some prefer to remain indoors, others frolic alongside their human partners.

With kids out of school and snowfalls up to 30 cm in some parts of Greater Victoria on the morning of Dec. 20, snow day fun is almost guaranteed.

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