practicality

You're thinking of Halifax, I think. Or possibly Jo, stuck out in Winnipeg, although the problem there is less that it's snowing and more that it's -40F _not_ counting windchill. Vancouver gets like...a foot of snow, maybe. Of course, then everyone panicks, because they're all 'What is this cold white stuff falling from the sky instead of our beloved rain?!', kind of like Southerners do (I was amused the year that Katsucon got snowed in - it was like a foot and a half, which is by no means a small amount, but that same storm dropped more like two and a half feet on us in MA).