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Good Morning from Whistler!

The snow has once again started to fall up here — and it’s slowly starting to feel like winter once again.

All eyes will be watching the big hockey game this afternoon between Canada and Russia. Hopefully the boys can pull off their much-needed win.

And a great accomplishment from Whistler gal Ashleigh McIvor who took the Gold medal in Women’s Ski Cross yesterday at Cypress Mountain. Here’s hoping our athletes can add more medals to our collection later today.

This morning we gave you a “behind the scenes” look at the broadcasting operations up here in Whistler. Check it out!

Have a great day!

K

Accuweather.com meteorologist Jim Kosek is quite possibly insane, drunk or a little of both but one thing’s for sure- he makes for good TV!

Check out this recent clip of him freaking out over “Snowpocalypse”

There is also this great montage of some of his previous antics.

Enjoy!

-Thor

For some reason, everyone loves talking about the weather.  It’s a great “go-to” conversation when you’re chatting with relatives who don’t live in the area.  And right now, the weather is a huge topic of conversation, with the Olympics on the horizon.

January is proving to be unusually mild for us here on the South Coast.  Vancouver gets lots of rain every single year.  But our current “wet spell” is a little strange.  Especially given the fact we’re hosting the Winter Olympics in just over a week.  This “winter weather” certainly isn’t what most of the world is used to seeing!

Hard to believe crews are having to truck in snow from Manning Park, in order to keep the slopes nice and white on Cypress for the Olympics!

And one of the main centres for the Olympics is closed today.  But it’s not because of the weather.  The Robson Media Centre in downtown Vancouver has been shut down because of a flood last night!  A pipe burst on the main floor and flooded the centre.  So crews are spending today mopping everything up and hope to have the centre up and running once again by tomorrow morning.  Luckily, no equipment was damaged!

By the way, we’ll be doing Breakfast Television live from Robson Square each morning during the Olympics.  Dawn and Riaz will be there.  And I’ll be doing BT live from Whistler each morning.   We’re excited about the next few weeks!  And we hope you are, too!

Have a great day!

K

Here’s what Riaz & I got up to on Friday night at the Boulevard Casino.  I had no idea how raunchy Tracy Morgan’s act is but we were thoroughly entertained!  Had a great dinner on Saturday night at the Earls on Broadway & Fir (thanks to Brad and all the staff for making it a dynamite evening!) 

We finally made it through the long haul to a long weekend!  The weather is heatin’ up, we have Friday off- what more could I ask for?

-Thor

Check out the link to see Obama’s gaffe on Leno last night.  I think he was trying a bit too hard to be funny.

He has since apologized to the head of the Special Olympics and has even invited some members to bowl at the White House.  Hopefully they school the prez!

It’s gonna rain this weekend so go see I Love You, Man

-Thor

Hey,

It’s Monday, it snowed (in March) and I really have nothing to say today.  A pigeon hit a window at Citytv today and let me tell ya, there wasn’t much of his head left (sorry kids).  I will dedicate my blog to him today.  That being said, Rock Doves (aka pigeons) are rats with wings that infest the city so I’m not losing any sleep- nice tribute eh?

Give me a magpie any day- now there’s a classy bird, and smart too!

Keep your Watchmen comments coming, even if you totally disagree with my 2 hammer verdict.  Here’s a link to the review from last Friday.  It would appear that Paul Bae from The CityNews List burned me but I can assure you, that was not the case- oh who am I kidding, he got me goooood!

See ya,

-Thor

I thought we had purged all the potential snow we could get this winter but looks like I was wrong!

Not much time right now to talk, have to dash out and see Liam Neeson go ballistic in “Taken”- I’ll have an update later.

-TD