Digging themselves out: With Santa Claus parade cancelled, Londoners make best of snowy situation
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Londoners continue to dig themselves out from this week’s massive snowstorm.
Londoners continue to dig themselves out from this week’s massive snowstorm.
“It's been pretty brutal getting up every day and driving to work, and then we spend the first hour or so just cleaning off cars,” said Trevor Ebert, salesperson at Leavens Chrysler in east London. “We have seven salespeople here, and all of us getting out here, it takes us hours to clear off even just all the cars, not to mention moving things so that the plow can come through.”
The north and east ends of the city were blasted with snow this week, and some parking lots have banks about six feet high.
Just a few kilometres from Leaven’s, the London International Airport (YXU) has resumed normal operations.
“Everything is clear, and you wouldn't really know, looking at the runways or some of the parking lots, other than the massive piles of snow that have accumulated, that we had the weather that we did,” said Scott McFadzean, YXU chief executive officer. “It's really just all hands-on deck around the clock with every single person in the airport working to help clear snow. We saw a few of the Air Canada Jazz connectors into Toronto got canceled as a result of the snow, but all of the sun destination flying continued and our WestJet to Calgary continued.”
A year ago, the Argyle BIA Santa Claus Parade went off without any snow.
This year, there was just too much.
