Snow clearing in Canada

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Had a huge storm in Winnipeg around the same time, which shut the city down. I remember being in my apartment in bed and hearing nothing on the streets outside that night except snowmobiles. Thought it was really cool at the time!

 

[Mace Canute]

Reminds me of a massive storm that hit Montreal back in late '70's.
Folks snow sledded down main street and they had to use D7's and D 8's to clear some streets.
I was running my Skidoo sled on the crests of snow drifts and kept hearing 'clang-clang' as I ran down the street.
After a while I realized that the drifts were actually covering parked cars and the 'clang clang' was antennas that I was hitting as I went by.
Snow clean up was slow as nobody could tell the difference between drifts and buried cars.
Took about 3 days to get back to a semblance of normal.

Montreal's ability to handle snow is incredible; easily better than anyone else in the world.

 

[Mace Canute]

I remember the storms of that era. My neighbour was a salesman for Westin Foods, drove a big 'ol blue Polara. One storm totally closed down the 401; I remember him talking about making it back to Ottawa from Toronto that night - said he only made because he tucked in right behind a transport truck, and followed it all the way into Ottawa.

I remember the pictures in the paper of that storm - troops walking down the 401. They had big blowers out after the storm to clear the snow, but the troops were there to probe the huge snow drifts with long poles to find buried cars. Can't remember numbers, but I would be surprised if there were no fatalities.

Some people get worked up about 10cm of snow today

Rgds, D.

Back in the winter of 72/73 I was in the Yukon working in an asbestos mill. One of the guys there decided he just had to go to Dawson for a ittle R&R so he set off in really bad weather in his Vega. He tucked in behind one of the transport trucks that hauled the asbestos out. Not one of use could understand how he managed it but he literally tucked in under the back of the trailer and got jammed in there and got dragged the rest of the way to Dawson.

Earlier than that back in the late 50's I remember my mom and big brother and I being out hunting with a broom handle for his truck which was completely buried in a snowdrift after a storm. Took a bit of shoveling to get it out...

 

[PILOON]

Reminds me of a massive storm that hit Montreal back in late '70's.
Folks snow sledded down main street and they had to use D7's and D 8's to clear some streets.
I was running my Skidoo sled on the crests of snow drifts and kept hearing 'clang-clang' as I ran down the street.
After a while I realized that the drifts were actually covering parked cars and the 'clang clang' was antennas that I was hitting as I went by.
Snow clean up was slow as nobody could tell the difference between drifts and buried cars.
Took about 3 days to get back to a semblance of normal.

That storm got my picture on the front page of the Montreal Star!

I had sledded to the local store to stock up on essentials which included a 24 of Molson Ale. (and bread and milk eggs etc)
A reporter asked to be sledded to the train station as that was still running with instructions to get local pics.
He suggested that a pix with me holding that case of 24's with a caption of 'Locals stock up with essentials' would make good copy.
Well it sure did as the next edition had my pix in front of my sled with that 24 on my shoulder.
LOL, I still have that issue with me on page one. The pix was all of a 1/2 page at that! (slow news day)