Found and Bliss : You're Not Buried - 5 Tips from Newfoundlanders

Monday, January 20, 2020

You're Not Buried - 5 Tips from Newfoundlanders

If you are Canadian, you are no doubt aware of the storm hitting in Newfoundland. If you live anywhere else than there, you 'come from away' but you'd always be welcome. Newfoundland (pronounced new-fn-land if you're Canadian and you say it quickly) is an island and our easternmost province.

Newfoundlanders (sometimes affectionately called Newfies) are often the recipients of below-the-belt jokes at their expense. Heck, come on, who would want to live on a rock, distant from civilization, plagued by brutal weather in winter and speak with a funny accent?

However, our country is diverse, and we like it that way. We travel for kilometres to see the icebergs floating by in the east, the waving fields of wheat in the prairies, the majestic snow-covered mountains (even in July sometimes) on the Coquihalla Highway and the tulips in the far west at our other coast.

We are a nation big enough to hold everyone and kind enough to care for everyone. (Tweet This)

St John's NL (not Today) Courtesy Pixabay

A state of emergency has been declared in St. John's. But nothing has beaten the spirit and the humour of our Newfoundland family of Canadians as they've laughed, tweeted, or driven via ski-doo to deliver their baby, through this unprecedented recent snow storm.

So when each of us is buried in overwhelming snow, stuff and sh*t that we are not expecting, we could turn to these Canadians seen here in this assortment of tweets from Huffington.

Let's see what we our Newfoundland friends have shown us.