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I might live in Canada, but snow in the south-western portion of B.C. is pretty uncommon. Okay, not as rare as snow in California, for instance, but we don’t get a lot of it – maybe a few weeks a year, and it generally turns to slush when the rain starts again. Apparently we’re in…