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HALIFAX — Maritimers are struggling to dig themselves out of back-to-back snow dumps that accept walloped the East Coast.
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A major storm clobbered Atlantic Canada aftermost week, burying all-inclusive swaths of the arena in added than half a accent of snow by Monday. There was barely a reprieve afore a additional arrangement went through the region.
While the affliction of the blustery acclimate appears to accept passed, residents and admiral akin are still puzzling over how to get rid of the mountains of snow lining streets and anchorage in abounding communities.
"I dig and dig and dig, and somehow, there's more," said Gordon Gilbert of Sydney in Cape Breton. "I don't bethink what my backyard ornaments attending like."
Nova Scotia's online plow tracker showed added than 35 snow-clearing cartage still working on the province's anchorage Sunday. In Halifax, cars bashed through streets belted by aerial snowbanks as about 200 aggregation assignment "around-the-clock" to bright the airless snowfall, according to a burghal spokesperson.
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Tiffany Chase said the city is application all attainable assets to deal with the storm's aftermath, but said it could be addition anniversary until all residential walkways are accessible.
Many sidewalks in the city have been clogged by a accommodation war between residents shoving snow off their driveways and snowblowers atom snowbanks abroad from the roads, leaving a band of decrepit barrage for pedestrians to clump through in between.
"Many of us apperceive the activity of anguish when, afterwards spending hours charwoman your driveway, it snows... again," Nova Scotia RCMP said in a statement. "Storms like the ones we are accepting this ages accomplish abounding of us admiration breadth we're activity to put all of that snow."
Cpl. Jennifer Clarke fabricated a appeal to citizens to accumulation the snow in their own yards, reminding Nova Scotians to advice their neighbours "survive this winter" and that the season will eventually end.
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Terry Bernard, chair of accessible works in Charlottetown, said the city's cleanup is about over as about 40 trucks were alive this weekend to haul snow out of the city area.
Management at Home Depot food in Fredericton and Saint John, N.B., say they've apparent a fasten in snowblower sales and a Halifax location had to adjustment added addition to accumulate up with demand. Several bodies accept acquaint capital ads to Kijiji looking to buy secondhand units or additional parts.
"When you're shovelling that much snow, you can get injuries," said Duane Moss, a snowblower technician at Scope Industrial abreast St. John's, N.L. "I'd rather pay $1,500 for a apparatus than $1,500 in analysis for my back."
Moss said he's accustomed about 30 calls a day asking about aliment back the aboriginal storm hit aftermost Monday, abounding of them from bodies who accept burst their machines by sucking bits active in their yards.
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He said snowblowers are a must-have tool to get through winter on the East Coast and apprenticed bodies to accouter themselves afore the next blizzard — not after.
Susan Keffer of Fredericton said it took six hours to bright her driveway afterwards the winter double-whammy, alike with a snowblower. The city's city streets are still snow-packed, said Keffer, with banks so aerial that "you booty your activity in your own easily advancing out of an intersection."
New Brunswick is still addled from aftermost month's adverse ice storm that acquired boundless ability outages beyond the province. Keffer said her mother hasn't apparent such a acrid winter in her 95 years active in the province, so aback the latest assault came around, bodies already knew the drill.
"We alive in Canada. It is February," she said. "We're not assured mosquitoes. We get snow."
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Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press
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