Late Winter snow shuts down much of North America... But not Vancouver BC the future home of the Vancouver 2010 Freestyle Olympic Mud skiing events

While Vancouver Canada is struggling to fly snow into the local mountains for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games many other parts of North America are suffering through snow storms. The most notable of the snow related situations is happening in Dallas Texas where local schools are being closed in Dallas as well as Plano as a result of an early February snowfall in the Lonestar state.

Above you can see a TXDOT Texas traffic webcam shot of the snow falling in Texas. To help you keep apprised of the situation, I am including a couple of live Texas Webcams of the cnow falling in Texas

In comparison, Cyprus Bowl, the home of the Vancouver 2010 Freestyle skiing competition has seen a mere 5 CM or 2 Inches of snow in the last 24 hours. Add that to exlusive HTBW inside information on the snow crisis on Cyprus bowl where Helicopters flying snow in from the top of the mountain are seeing it melt away by the time they come in with the next load of snow. At this rate, the Vancouver 2010 Freestyle competition may very well become a mud skiing event.

So poor are the snow conditions on Cyprus bowl that VANOC organizers are not letting anyone up the hill to take pictures. In addition, they are not allowing the athletes to even practice on the hill as they "want to preserve the snow that is up there." As the official word says. For more on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, check out the HTBW Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games site. As you can see from the Live Webcamera from Vancouver BC, the home of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games, Vancouver is far from wintery.

In other parts of North America, Delaware has declared a state of Emergency due to the massive amounts of snow falling and building up in the area. At 12:01 Wednesday Morning, Governor Markell. All non-essential vehicles must stay off the roads. Essential personnel such as police, rescue workers, emergency workers, as well as members of the media are the only ones allowed to drive during a state of emergency.

The Delaware State of Emergency declaration officially goes as follows:

Essential personnel shall include authorized personnel responding to the state of emergency, peace officers, emergency management or rescue personnel, medical personnel, utility personnel, snow clearance and building and systems maintenance personnel, members of the media, carriers and drivers of commercial motor vehicles transporting commodities such as heating oil, propane, gasoline and salt, or staple grocery supplies to food stores, or deliveries of agricultural products necessary to maintain the life of livestock, and employees of critical 24/7 facilities such as health care facilities, commercial facilities and correctional institutions

Other parts of North America are also being hit hard by this late snowfall. I heard Newfoundland was hit by snow quite hard as was other parts of Eastern Canada. Vancouver, on the other hand, is seeing above freezing temperatures of around 8 or 9 degree's Celsius (According to Bob and Doug, the conversion method is Double it and add 30) that is 46F, people. Even Cyprus Bowl, the home to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic freestyle Mud skiing events is well above freezing, so that 2" snowfall will soon be melted away by the rain.