Storm Survival Guide

You may need lots of help to get through the next 24 hours. And fortunately, it’s available.

Here are a few links, phone numbers, and general bits of info and advice that may come in handy as you navigate the slick streets of the GTA. 

 

Weather

To see the current forecast and track the disturbance using continually updated radar, click here.

Eyes of Toronto

Planning to head out into the teeth of this thing? See what it’s going to be like on your route using our Eyes of Toronto cameras. To pick your highway, click here.

CAA

If you run into car trouble and are a CAA member, help is a phone call or a mouse click away. But be ready to wait – response times are always longer when the weather gets bad. The agency often receives up to 500 phone calls an hour when things get really nasty.  

Call (416) 222-5222 or 1-800-CAA-HELP (1-800-222-4357) to reach an operator, or click here to make your request over the web.

General Driving Info 

For advice on what to do if you’re in an accident and where the collision reporting centres are, click here.

For advice on how to drive in a blizzard or whiteout conditions and what your car emergency kit should contain, see our story here.  

School Bus Monitor
 
Check out our School Bus Monitor section to find out if transportation to and from schools is up and running or not.

TTC

The TTC doesn’t provide a specific webpage for updates, but all surface bus and streetcar routes have been slowed to a crawl.

The subways aren’t affected, since the Commission learned a lot from the “call-in-the-army” dumping of 1999, when part of the system was forced to close due to the amount of snow. It’s long since added additional equipment to keep those subway routes that temporarily run outside and above ground up and moving. 

GO Transit

Public transit is the best way to go, but the snow has already played havoc with the schedules. And GO Transit has had problems with delays and cancellations due to bad weather in the past, although the CN strike shouldn’t be an impediment to getting there during the storm.

Click here for service updates.

Pearson International Airport

Flights from the U.S. are affected by this huge system and things aren’t much better here. To check the status of your arrival or departure, click here.

For a list of all airlines flying out of Pearson and their phone numbers, click here.

 

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