For the third time in a week, a blast of winter is bearing down on the Maritimes.
The City of Fredericton is still cleaning up from two other significant snowfalls in the past week. Crews fought the clock to shave down snow clogged streets and sidewalks, trying to make room for what’s to come.
Storm conditions began Monday afternoon, with snow quickly covering highways in southern New Brunswick.
The first flakes fell in Fredericton just as school was letting out for the day.
“My teacher, I don’t think she’s planning a lesson for tomorrow,” says student Jenna Scott.
For parts of the region, this system will be the worst of the season in terms of nasty conditions.
Heavy snow in New Brunswick will be matched through Nova Scotia's Colchester and Cumberland counties, as well as western Prince Edward Island.
In Halifax, roads were slippery well before the evening rush hour. A mix bag of precipitation, plus rising temperatures will create challenges in the HRM.
“Plowing, clearing catch pits, dealing with flooding, we’ll get out there and do as much as we can with the resources available to us, recognizing full well that for the next 12 or 18 hours we’ll be dealing with challenging conditions, no doubt,” says Darrin Natolino, HRM winter operations superintendent.
This storm system has the capacity to create problems even longer than that.
“When you have these types of elements, you could run into power outages, anything could happen where you need to sustain yourself. So, hopefully people had the chance to get out and get their supplies,” says Paul Bradley of the NB EMO.
Nova Scotia residents will now be able to check online to see when their street will be plowed out, with the province’s new online plow tracking tool. Residents are now able to see where plows are in real time and when their road will be cleared.
