People in Gravenhurst are digging out Monday after a major storm hit the region over the weekend.
Downed hydro lines, trees and abandoned vehicles are hampering snow-clearing efforts in Gravenhurst Monday, officials with the town say, after intense snow squalls battered parts of Ontario over the weekend.CBC News Downed hydro lines, trees and abandoned vehicles are hampering snow-clearing efforts in Gravenhurst Monday, officials with the town say, after intense snow squalls battered parts of Ontario over the weekend.
Downed hydro lines are also posing a challenge — the town says though it doesn't have an exact count of how many have fallen, there have been "dozens of instances" where hydro lines draped across roads have slowed snow removal. In each of those cases, utility workers have to be called in to remove them.
OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says crews are still working to clear the snow and they hope to reopen the northbound lanes of the highway around noon and the southbound lanes later in the afternoon. Power outages are still an issue in the region because the main Hydro One line that connects the south end of the community is still without power, the town says.
Gravenhurst was hit with around 140 centimetres of snow over the weekend and subsequently declared a state of emergency early Sunday.
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