City Still Cleaning Up After Weekend Storm
Posted December 18, 2007 12:00 pm.
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With the official start of winter still a few days away, the GTA continues to clean up from the weekend’s major snow storm.
Roads and sidewalks are still slick and treacherous following the biggest one-day December snowfall in 60 years. Even snow clearing vehicles were still having problems moving the white stuff out of the way Tuesday – a Jeep plowing snow got stuck at Mutual near Queen at about 4:30am. A tow truck managed to free it from the snow bank.
In Toronto, Riverdale received one of the biggest dumpings of snow, with 30 centimetres falling there.
The city expects the cleanup will finally be finished by Wednesday, at a cost of $5 million.
Environment Canada climatologist Dave Phillips suggests the storm came and went just as it was expected to.
“This storm was well forecasted,” he said. “It did what it should have done, came in when it should have, and left when it should have.”
Despite the fact that most people knew about the storm, Ontario Provincial Police said the number of car crashes increased as time went on.
“I was out yesterday and I saw far too many people not adjusting their driving to the weather and road conditions,” Commissioner Julian Fantino said in a statement.
“A majority of the collisions would not have occurred if drivers slowed down.”
Three people were killed on the roads in separate crashes in this province, including a woman killed on Sunday when she left her vehicle and was hit by a snow plow.
