Monday, January 4, 2016

Getting rid of the snow - The removal process

One thing that will amaze anyone on their winter in Montreal is when they see the whole apparatus in action of the snow removing process. The logistics, coordination and flow of the whole process is impressive.

● Starting from the announcement to the residents of the street s involve 12 hours in advance.
●The announcer with the loud sirens throughout the streets, for those vehicles still parking on the lane to be clean.
● The tow truck to move those vehicles which drivers were deft enough to not hear the noisy sirens for half an hour. ..or were simply not at home at the moment.
● The car with the smiley person to write the parking ticket.
All this just to make sure that the whole street side is empty when the action begins.


And there it is when someone says action;:
●A huge snow removal shows up with a big mouth and roaring like there is no tomorrow. The first one will clear up part of the sidewalks and move all the snow to the middle of the street.
●A small sidewalk removal will come after to clean up the sidewalks more in details and pile it up to the street.
●The big snow removal will pass a second time to pile the rest of whatever snow still remaining on the street.


Now with large pile of snow in the middle of the street.



●Now, is the time for the big trucks to complete the work. A snow blower will take care of that large pile of snow and will blow it into huge trucks.




You will see a long line of trucks that will assure that when one got full of snow another empty one will take its place right away.



The whole process might take about an hour of coming and going, but it's a good show for a winter morning. The funny thing is that even though the whole sirens noises woke me up, it was in a right time so I can have a hot coffee while looking at the whole thing through the window. By now, they are working on the final touches of clean up, some snow flakes are starting to fall down. That's the irony of the winter.

Stay warm, chances are you will see the snow removal show a few times more in the months ahead.

See you tomorrow,


Teresa Flores, Direct from Montreal

posted from Bloggeroid

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