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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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Halifax, have some patience Blizzard
Snow removal will take days after storm, city says Zane Woodford
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Get used to it, Halifax. The municipality can’t say when exactly this week’s 55 to 70 centimetres of snow will be cleared, but “it’s not hours, it’s gonna be some days.” “Unfortunately with a storm of this magnitude, the service standards that we usually go by … aren’t able to be met,” HRM superintendent of winter operations Trevor Harvie said Tuesday. “It’s hard to speculate a time frame on it at this point.” Harvie said the snow stopped at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The usual service standards are to have main arterials cleared within 12 hours.
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Residential streets are supposed to be cleared “to a snow-covered and passable state” within 24 hours. Sidewalks on main arteries and downtown are supposed to be done within 12 hours, sidewalks along transit routes 18 hours and residential sidewalks 36 hours. “Right now our streets are in pretty good shape considering that (Tuesday) morning we just finished getting around 60 centimetres of snow,” Harvie said. Another 15 centimetres forecast Wednesday night into Thursday — which Environment Canada meteorologist Tracey Talbot said could mix with rain and ice pellets — isn’t going to help, Harvey said, “but we’re still in the snow business.” “Mother Nature can be your friend or foe, and we just take care of it as it comes and do the best we can,” he said. The municipality brought in extra equipment to remove snow from streets and bus stops, and Harvie asked for the public’s help tackling sidewalks.
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