Snow continues today. I don't see anything particularly menacing on the Environment Canada radar map, but it's snowing anyway.

My 2021 VW Golf GTI has many lovable bells and whistles, but there's one I don't love: the "parking assist", a short-range radar system that detects things one may not wish to bump into or scrape. Yes, it's handy while backing into a spot in a crowded parking lot to get a beep that tells me that I'm cutting too close to a very expensive SUV that the back-up camera can't see. At low speeds, however, the radar can't tell the difference between an SUV and thickly falling snow! So, as I pick my way around snow-choked downtown Stratford, the car beeps and whistles at me incessantly.

There's an old joke about a student pilot who pancaked his aircraft on the runway because his cockpit warning systems and the flares fired by the tower crew were so distracting that he forgot to lower his landing gear. In the right wrong conditions, I could be that guy!