Icy weather: all schools are closed
CBC radio is saying that all public schools are closed Thursday because of the icy weather. There are various lists of the schools and commissions concerned.
CTV adds that some bus routes are also affected again Thursday. Urgences-Santé is staying busy.
Why weren’t sidewalks plowed Wednesday night? Why was there no gravel or salt around on Thursday morning?
CBC says here that “An STM bus slid into a wall on Iberville Street near the corner of St-Joseph Boulevard.” What’s more worrying, going by the photo, is that it slid right up onto the sidewalk. Luckily nobody was walking past at the time.
Some streets are actually closed because of huge lakes of trapped water. Some blue collar work is slowed down because workers’ kids are out of school.
Jack 12:06 on 2019-01-24 Permalink
I am at McGill all alone, why is the University open?
Joey 14:59 on 2019-01-24 Permalink
I saw some sidewalks being plowed last night. Not sure that the layer of freezing rain would be more or less treacherous on the sidewalks that were plowed vs those that weren’t…
EmilyG 15:58 on 2019-01-24 Permalink
Late last night my friend and I were walking down a sidewalk that had been cleared, but was solid ice, and a sidewalk on another street, which hadn’t been cleared and was covered in snow. The snow-covered sidewalk was much easier and safer to walk on.