Have fun shovelling the snow people? 41CM of snow!

[ArcsVibe]

Commuters soldier on41 cm of snow over 11 hours; 400 calls for cars to be towed ANNE SUTHERLANDThe GazetteSaturday, December 17, 2005Montrealers coped as best they could with yesterday's heavy snowfall, slogging through the drifts and showing the grace and ingenuity the city's residents are known for.Strangers put down their packages and used elbow grease to extricate stuck vehicles. A group of young Hasidic men helped push a car and then a supermarket truck out of the deep snowbanks at the corner of Park Ave. and St. Viateur St.Cross-country skiers were spotted on Crescent and Peel Sts.A motorist was seen knitting as her car sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic at the foot of the Jacques Cartier Bridge."This? This is nothing," said Mario Roy, taking a break from his job shovelling off the plaza at Place Ville Marie. "Remember the storm of the century in the '70s?"On March 4, 1971, 43.2 centimetres of snow fell. Winds gusted to 110 kilometres an hour. Pockets of the city were without power for two to seven days.In a 11-hour period yesterday, Greater Montreal received 41 centimetres of snow.Chantal Allard of St. Lambert got up yesterday, looked outside and decided to take a commuter train to her job downtown instead of driving in, as she usually does.She was spotted on her lunch hour clutching three toy shovels from a dollar store, her solution to clearing the now snow-buried car she left behind at the train station."Sure, they'll probably break, but they're better than nothing," Allard said with a laugh. "And I can't wait to get home and play in the snow with my kids."A slew of quirky sights brought a smile to observers yesterday:-A sidewalk snowplow took out a parking meter in front of Westmount Square.-A man was spotted on Peel St. trying to dig his car out with a windshield scraper.-An impatient executive tried to get around the crowd on the commuter rail platform at Windsor Station, and wound up stepping off the pavement into a thigh-high snowdrift.-A woman got out of her car on the Mercier Bridge to clear off snow accumulated during the lengthy trip, only to lock her keys in the car.-An elderly gentleman tried to back his Jaguar out of a snow-plugged driveway in Westmount and got out periodically to poke snow away from under his tires with his cane.-A woman, spotted in St. Laurent, scooped up snow on her balcony by the dustpan full.-A man was hanging out of a van on St. Jacques St., scraping his windshield while useless wipers flapped - all at 40 kilometres an hour.Environment Canada's forecast for today calls for a mixture of sun and cloud and a high of minus 1C. "It will be a nice day to shovel all that snow," meteorologist Andre Cantin said.asutherland@thegazette.canwest.com

[AKLGT]

damn! we have warm weather and most of the snow has melted here... which leaves an icy slush that turns to an ice rink at night. plus, it makes it very difficult to keep the car clean enough to even see out of the windsheild!

[ArcsVibe]

Here are some pictures!

[fredfreedom]

AH! It was really funny to drive my Vibe in that snow! Real thanks to my 4 winter tires!

[Raven]

I managed to break 3 snowblowers in the one snowstorm. I broke a shear pin on one at work. I blew the head gasket on mine at home and blew both drive belts and a shear pin helping out my neigbor at her place with her new 10 1/2 HP monster. We had some drifts up to my waist and I'm 6ft 1in tall. I fixed all three today for a total of $36.00.