Ontario, Mother Nature is not being nice. HELP
Days after historic storm, Sudburians continue to dig out of the snow Some residents are still unable to leave their homes as of Wednesday. Suzy Franklyn was trapped at her Sudbury, Ont., home for two days after a winter storm walloped parts of northeastern Ontario. Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre called it the storm of the century. “The snowplows cannot push that thick snow, and, therefore, we need graders and loaders, and we have a limited capacity of those,” Lefebvre said. He said the goal was for every street in the city to have received at least one snow-clearing pass by Wednesday night. “Remember, we have 3,600 kilometres of lanes alone in the City of Greater Sudbury.”" Fully addressing this significant snowfall will likely take weeks, but we're actively working towards a return to normal."
“I hunkered down for the first day or two, and then, since it is Wednesday, I slowly started to realize help was not forthcoming,” Franklyn said, standing outside her home, near her car still buried in snow. Franklyn said she called two contractors, but neither of them was willing to touch her 95-meter driveway. “I’m told I need a loader,” she said. By Wednesday, Terry Gavan, who lives in the New Sudbury part of the city, said his driveway hadn’t been cleared. He posted a handwritten sign on his front door that reads, "Snow removal help needed, please." He said he called every snow removal company he could think of, but none returned his calls. Gavan said he had enough food at home to last several days but would need to get out for groceries sooner than later.
Environment Canada reported the city received more than 40 centimetres of snowfall from Sunday, March 15, to Monday, March 16. Freezing rain that followed the snow created a solid crust that made it more difficult to clear. We have four or five feet of snow, and it's very heavy and crusted with ice.