Another winter and same old stories. Some love it, some don’t.

Usually cold winter days bring in snowstorms that put smiles on kids faces, big and small, who enjoy winter activities on local slopes, on ice and wherever opportunity presents itself. In the same time this large amounts of snow can cause a havoc in the cities, especially those that are not very often hit hard and for that reason don’t have ready clean up crews.

Snow removal in Montreal. From one side of the street snow is removed first.

In extreme cases no amount of preparation and heavy equipment can keep up with the snowfall. Under those circumstances traffic can be brought to the standstill, driving becomes impossible and in some cases motorists do get stranded buried in the snow.

If you live in a warm climate and wonder how all that looks like then our video may help. Montreal snow storm video is featuring moderate snow storm that had left behind 15cm of snow on the city streets. Second part of video is showing few scenes of typical snow removal operation that follows during the first 7 days.

How bad it gets in you city during and after the snowstorm and are you happy with snow cleaning or removal response? What excuses your city cancelers have when things go wrong?