Hatunen wrote:

Early Monday morning I told my wife I'd check weather conditions
outside, so I went down to the front door of our apartment
building to check the street. Damn! The street was completely
plowed; they ahd been plowing through the night.

My wife drove me down to Town of Mount Royal to catch a train
into downtown. Damned if the Town had not only plowed the snow
off the streets, they'd taken it away.

The sidewalks were probably cleaned off within a few hours to it. We do not consider snow
to be a disaster. It is a normal weather condition that you learn to deal with. Everyone
has a shovel or snow blower to clear off their driveways and sidewalks. If there is snow on
the road you drive a little slower. The snowplows clear the snow off the roads and
everything looks white and pretty. Once every 50 years of so we get a serious blizzard.
But even that is not a major problem. You stay home and miss a day or two of work until
the snow is cleaned up.