From Buried Roads to Clear Pavement – Storm Shift Recovery

On February 11th it started snowing around 9 PM and snowed hard all night. Provincial forecasts were calling for 10–20 cm, but here in Pictou County we were toward the higher end of that range, with some reports exceeding 25 cm as the storm intensified moving east. By the time I got up for dayshift, there was almost 2 feet in my driveway — and even deeper where it had drifted. There was a lot of drifting the morning after the storm, with snow piled up heavy across open sections of road. When I arrived at 5 AM, I was told 3 of our trucks were already in the ditch — along with the front-end loader we use to load salt. That left us scrambling with only 4 trucks still mobile. There was over a foot of snow on most of my roads where they hadn’t been plowed for a while, and much deeper in drifted areas. The snow eased off the next day, but the wind kept blowing. Salt was working well and by afternoon the roads were really starting to come around. Nightshift came in and cleaned up and pushed banks back the following night. By Valentine’s Day it was a beautiful sunny day, so I went out and cleaned up the remaining snow, did some winging back, and shelved the higher snowbanks to make room for the next storm. Storms like this take long hours, coordination, and teamwork, and I’m proud of the effort our crews put in to keep the roads safe. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to like and subscribe