Cloudy with a chance of soya beans: town wakes to find layer of legumes

Residents of Hamilton, Ontario woke up one winter morning to find their streets covered in soya bean husk instead of snow

Like most Canadians, residents of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, are well used to waking to find their yards and houses coated in a mantle of white. But when they left their houses on a recent morning, they were surprised to realise that it was not snow that had fallen in the night.

At first, Adrienne Van Halem thought the city authorities had accidentally sprayed salt across the road, sidewalks and yards of her neighbourhood.

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Source: The Guardian