47 cm (18.5 inches) of snow fell in Montreal on Dec 27, 2012 and it took the city eight days to pass by my street. It would take another 48 hours until the other side was cleared.
Brings back memories. I grew up in Montreal. Oddly enough I miss the way the house rumbled and the incessant beeping that would lull me to sleep at night. I miss the immense snow mounds that would allow us to sled, build snow forts and the way they sometimes lasted until the first part of June.
Now that’s the way to make it happen. Very professional if I may say so. I made a great living plowing snow in Michigan. Thanks again for the content. Take care and stay safe.😀
Is that Park Extension? I grew up there, Montreal has the biggest snow removal budget of any city in Canada (or used to) and when they are done there isn't enough snow left in the street to make a snowball. They would tow the parked cars that were in the way over to the next street and give you a 40$ ticket. Many people didn't mind as their cars were stuck anyway. They used to truck it away and dump it in huge vacant lot where there was a factory that burned down. In the spring when it was melting we would play hooky from school and go there to find money and stuff in the melting ice and snow.
Wow! I am impressed!! That is the most ocd meticulously awesome city/town snow plowing/removal I have ever seen!! My city averages 70-100 inches of snow per season. And my city’s snow plowing is the worst in human existence. This makes me wonder those dudes in Montreal are the gold standard in plowing snow and removing it for city and towns.
7 Rivers east hats off ? After 8 days those streets should be bare asphalt. We get far more snow in and around Syracuse ny and that would be cleaned up within 24 hrs. 8 days. Amatuers. Smh
I freaking love it! Back in the day a few years ago Anchorage Alaska received 38 inches of snow all at once! Most of us were stuck at home I fired up my big 4 x 4 and was able to go and assist our company. I pick up the president and was paid quite handsomely along with the nice dinner at a fancy restaurant.
Thanks. We had some more snow removal done this week from last week's snowfall but they passed by late in the evening and I was too tired to record it.
Nice video mate! Curious question, do you guys have "cleaning days" over there, as in even days there's no parking on the same side as even house numbers, and the same with odd days and numbers? I figured maybe you do, since all the cars were parked on yhe same side...
We're lucky if the city only does one pass on any side street. And what they do plow, they leave an inch of snow then throw sand on it. The streets are usually better BEFORE they plow them. Thanks for the video.
@@daleolson3506 Such small streets get done last. There are over 10,000km of streets and sidewalks to clean. To put that in perspective, it's twice the distance between Montreal and Vancouver.
@@upnorthviking823 Unless we get a 12" of snow from Midnight to 6am schools are open because roads are clear in NY. Granted Cities have a bigger challenge with parked cars and narrow streets.
This is just fascinating to me. I live in ms. We NEVER see this amt of snow. We may get 2" every 3 years. I don't envy you by no means but our kids in the south sure would love to see a lot of snow just once! But the clean up crew is fascinating !
From a warm weather guy, it looks like folks were able to drive down it before it was done? Is it really worth the taxes to do what they did? That was a 300m street, how many of those are there in the city? Is it really that much better then day 7?
i live 2 blocks from the city building where they house the city plow trucks yet we are the last people to get are street done and they leave snow on the street like you could not imagine currently there is a solid inch of ice / snow packed on the road like black top its insane but you guys up i canada are getting the job done for real but you would have to with the snow you guys get
The snow in the landfills are usually gone by anytime from late May to late June depending how much snow we had and how warm the Spring was. By then they are covered in black dirt and look like small hills.
Alan Ackaway do you have some 18 inches snowfalls? I wish not. And in those little street like in Montreal it is pretty impossible to do this job with a pick up. just try to put a 6 feet wet snow bank in a 12 feet truck with a pick up. Pretty difficult
Denis Germain Last year we had 30" of snow in one storm. The biggest storm this year was a little over 12".... My dodge 2500 cummins diesel was able to push back the 4ft windrows and pushed 3 feet of snow with out too much trouble, thankfully it was dry snow last year.... This year its all been heavy wet snow, I still havent had any issues
Alan lol you don't know what your talking about.wow you got a big truck hahah. You can push snow. Don't you see those truck in the video, I think they can push more that your kitty Cummins with a plow. What you don't understand is where do you want to push the snow !! It MUST be removed not plow.
I would like to say to a lot of people answering here that maybe you can use your 4 by 4 pickup truck, or just push the snow on the side, but another snowstorm may arrive in 2-3 days. And then another one. So you have to REMOVE that snow, it will not melt before the ned of march.
A lot of people complain about how long it took for this one road but it has to be done. It would take a long time to melt and I would much rather do it now when it's all frozen and clean than when it's half melted heavy and really wet!
If it takes about an hour per block long street do the math and realize a city like Montreal has a lot of work to do to clear all its streets. But it's human nature to want to be first and not have to wait. Funny though.... I thought people would complain about the noise the trucks, scrapers and plows made when they finally got around to clearing the snow. But then I'm used to Americans.
I remember this. My side of the street sidewalk was never plowed until teh day they cleaned my side which was 7 days later. We had to mount a snow hill to get across the street. The worst part is they cleaned teh other side 3 days earlier. Bad decision making I tell you.
Who would have thought clearing snow would be so time consuming. Here in the UK, even if we get a lot of snow, it never stays around for more than a few days so it never gets removed in trucks. Was fascinating to watch.
Just wondering why it took eight days for them to plow your street. I live in Ma. and 18 inches is not a crazy amount of snow. I have never waited even a few hours, crews run nonstop. They did do a nice job but eight days is way to long.
While pushing the snow off to one side you can tilt the wheels to compensate for the direction, otherwise the front of the grader would slide to the left
that is insane the amount of resources for a single street, you guys aren't messing around. fascinating to watch. now contrast this with a souther us city like atlanta georgia the entire city shuts down for days if they get 1-2 inches of snow.
That is amazing, as taxpayers people should expect more. I live in the Upper Midwestern snow region where anything under a foot is a dusting. The plows usually have the roads open, including the remote single lane rural roads within two hours of the end of the storm.
Expect more than what? Those guys are out there from day 1. Roads are prioritized, and I bet residential roads are the last to get done. Did you not see how time consuming that was? I'm guessing by your description you plow like we do and throw the snow off the shoulder and don't remove it. Montreal is a huge city with thousands of lane miles. Removing the snow is a lot different than plowing at 40mph
We have the same commitment to clearing the snow. As soon as 2 inches is on the ground, the plows and salt trucks are on the road. But once the snow is cleared for driving, they start the process of removing the snow so people can park their cars. In the past, they were able to all of it in 3-5 days but this snow removal took longer primarily to budget cuts (we're embroiled in a corruption scandal) and the when this storm occurred (2 days after Xmas).
Looks like Quebec really knows what they're doing when it comes to removing snow, they actually clean the streets for the people unlike in New York City where the sanitation department just runs along the street and burys your car and drive way with two feet of snow you just spent two back breaking hours to remove ,thank you very much guys.
@@pattimac373 this actually did happen in New York City twice. The first time in 1969 when Mayor Lindsey abandon the borough of Queens for 2 weeks. And the last year of Bloomberg's third term we had the infamous Christmas snow storm with a sanitation slow down that didn't plow streets for over 10 days in Queens. Neither of these politicians suffered the consequences. Bloomberg actually had the audacity to blame the citizens for driving in the snow and the plows couldn't get through which is the furthest thing from the truth.
The idiot that cleans up my drive way only, needs about $100 (30x120 feet) and even when offered him, he has no time or its Sat Sunday or TV has something he likes and he is not working!!!! Such is Government vs Private party work...
Why are they going down so many times in Winnipeg we aren’t allowed to park on the street during a certain times. Our snowploughs pass twice on one side and twice on the other and there done. Wow.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
That was my first winter in Montreal, and I say thank you to that winter. It pushed buying enough gear and jacket enough to handle another snow like that which hasn't happened again but I never had to worry about the snow again and finished my four year university in peace.
in my parts there would be a snow emergency declared and sections of town would be scheduled. North/South Streets one day and East/West the next day. And if your car does not get moved you get a ticket and a tow bill to have it moved to a clear street.
Brings back memories. I grew up in Montreal. Oddly enough I miss the way the house rumbled and the incessant beeping that would lull me to sleep at night. I miss the immense snow mounds that would allow us to sled, build snow forts and the way they sometimes lasted until the first part of June.
That is real snow removal. Here in Crookston Minnesota it’s called snow relocation. They take it from the street and relocate it to our driveways
This is so funny 😂 😂
Good old days when people used to wear scarfs on their mouth because it's freekin cold , not stupid mask !
This is why, here in Quebec, we pay some of the highest taxes in the world!
@@shanehawkins5361 Lol its cause of our crooked politicians at every level of government, not snow removal
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i actually watched the entire video. thanks for posting
Same with me
I will come back in June to get my car
Sometime snow is still here in Montreal till June.
@@NickRanger where in montreal... in may all is disappearing...
You have a lot of patience to document (in the cold) the whole process. Thank you.
Now that’s the way to make it happen. Very professional if I may say so. I made a great living plowing snow in Michigan. Thanks again for the content. Take care and stay safe.😀
WOW!! - This was surprising really fascinating! I'd always wondered how lots of snow in a city is removed. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
You should see the Japanese snow removal videos. Mind blowing!
Fantastic job, and thanks for filming!
That’s amazing, thanks for taking the time to make this video
Thanks for sharing! What a well coordinated operation.
This is the best video about our wonderful snow removal tha I've seen! Thank you for making and posting it. :-)
Thanks for watching my vid. Actually the temperature was around 0 C (32 F) so it wasn't cold at all. But I was a bit wet at the end.
heart attack snow as we call it
They really do a great job. In Virginia where I am you'd be lucky to get one pass. That's it.
Patience pays off...very thorough and well executed
Is that Park Extension? I grew up there, Montreal has the biggest snow removal budget of any city in Canada (or used to) and when they are done there isn't enough snow left in the street to make a snowball. They would tow the parked cars that were in the way over to the next street and give you a 40$ ticket. Many people didn't mind as their cars were stuck anyway. They used to truck it away and dump it in huge vacant lot where there was a factory that burned down. In the spring when it was melting we would play hooky from school and go there to find money and stuff in the melting ice and snow.
Close. It's actually NDG.
140 fine now.
Thank-you for sharing your video. Greetings from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Wow! I am impressed!! That is the most ocd meticulously awesome city/town snow plowing/removal I have ever seen!! My city averages 70-100 inches of snow per season. And my city’s snow plowing is the worst in human existence. This makes me wonder those dudes in Montreal are the gold standard in plowing snow and removing it for city and towns.
Great video of some very well coordinated snow removal! I'd love to come up and visit - no snow here in DC this year.
All this energy all this ressources for every single street unbelievalbe but what can you do, its the only way to go. Nice video
I'm studying snow removal recently. Your equipments are so cool.
Hats off to the street crews..nice job
Agree
7 Rivers east hats off ? After 8 days those streets should be bare asphalt. We get far more snow in and around Syracuse ny and that would be cleaned up within 24 hrs. 8 days. Amatuers. Smh
ROTAXD here in Canada we don’t cry about the snow.. we Embrace it.. and well you should thank Trump for that snow removal!😃
Awesome video! I have always wondered how Canadians deal with snow. Greetings form the USA!
That’s awesome I love your videos, my wife don’t understand she thinks I’m nuts because I watch these videos all the time.
Its therapeutic. As I often come back to this . I'm now more sympathetic to are Canadian friends .
I freaking love it! Back in the day a few years ago Anchorage Alaska received 38 inches of snow all at once! Most of us were stuck at home I fired up my big 4 x 4 and was able to go and assist our company. I pick up the president and was paid quite handsomely along with the nice dinner at a fancy restaurant.
Thanks for your feedback. The snow in my neighborhood goes to an old landfill about five minutes by car from my place.
You're welcome. Hope to post a couple more before the end of the winter, depending on the weather of course :-).
I love snow!!! The more we get the better it gets!!! Love to plow snow as long as no breakdowns occur!!!
Thanks. We had some more snow removal done this week from last week's snowfall but they passed by late in the evening and I was too tired to record it.
Nice video mate! Curious question, do you guys have "cleaning days" over there, as in even days there's no parking on the same side as even house numbers, and the same with odd days and numbers? I figured maybe you do, since all the cars were parked on yhe same side...
We're lucky if the city only does one pass on any side street. And what they do plow, they leave an inch of snow then throw sand on it. The streets are usually better BEFORE they plow them. Thanks for the video.
Grew up in the snow belt of central NY, where lake-effect snow of +200”/yr are the norm. Gotta love the northern climates!
Damn you guys have that down to a science there! Cool vid
jruss not really it took them 8 days
@@daleolson3506 Such small streets get done last. There are over 10,000km of streets and sidewalks to clean. To put that in perspective, it's twice the distance between Montreal and Vancouver.
8 days is terrible. Two days would be too long. Montreal should have this worked out as this much snow is normal.
@@w1ldrover i bet you never been here,never went on a snow run...
2days is a small town lmao!!!!
@@upnorthviking823 Unless we get a 12" of snow from Midnight to 6am schools are open because roads are clear in NY. Granted Cities have a bigger challenge with parked cars and narrow streets.
The final result ::: now you're ready for street hockey !!!
ehh
Thanks. Hope to do one or two more next winter.
That is a nice sounding Valtra :P
Are there no bans on street parking during times like these?
J'aime t'es Video, envoie en plus. Merci ! 👍😀
i would love to have a job driving one of those sidewalk cleaners
Does it finally melt through summer or is Montreal growing its very own glacier?
3:10 awww how cute it is in compare to that gigantic tractor 🚜 😂
There Must be a midget inside 😄
This is just fascinating to me. I live in ms. We NEVER see this amt of snow. We may get 2" every 3 years. I don't envy you by no means but our kids in the south sure would love to see a lot of snow just once! But the clean up crew is fascinating !
My sister live down there
Greg Bowlan I live in New York state and I must tell you this is a terrible clean up crew
Do the remove all the cars to do the other side?
I like the little sidewalk buggy. I need one of those for my driveway!
But that Valtra though! Didn't know you use Them in canada!:D
So where do thy put the snow
From a warm weather guy, it looks like folks were able to drive down it before it was done? Is it really worth the taxes to do what they did? That was a 300m street, how many of those are there in the city? Is it really that much better then day 7?
When is the carnival. In hull Quebec?
i live 2 blocks from the city building where they house the city plow trucks yet we are the last people to get are street done and they leave snow on the street like you could not imagine currently there is a solid inch of ice / snow packed on the road like black top its insane but you guys up i canada are getting the job done for real but you would have to with the snow you guys get
That's quite an operation. Very impressive.
Only one side of the street cleared?
Great video.
The snow in the landfills are usually gone by anytime from late May to late June depending how much snow we had and how warm the Spring was. By then they are covered in black dirt and look like small hills.
I used to work across the street from a snow dump in DDO, and those 'small black hills' could last into August!!
Nice quality video considering the time of day/night. I always ask, "Where do you guys put the snow in the city?"
A Stanton1966 probably dump it in a river or something I live in the country 🤷🏻♂️
8 days?
After 28 passes, only half the road is clear and all the cars parked on the one side are now packed into the artificial snow bank.
warpedbeyondhelp your an idiot.....they come thru with a snow blower and dump truck and clean out the snow
WATCH THE WHOLE VID
@@paulthesoundguy1 you might read exactly what people write before start throwing heavy words around.
HEAVY CHEVY.....WORDS ARE LIKE PIZZA....DONT GO TO THE PIZZA PLACE IF YOU DONT WANT TO EAT PIZZA.......
man, you should've stopped them and gave them a nice cup of coffee. Excellent job!
They did a real shit job if you ask me.... They do better jobs around here with pick up trucks
Alan Ackaway do you have some 18 inches snowfalls? I wish not. And in those little street like in Montreal it is pretty impossible to do this job with a pick up.
just try to put a 6 feet wet snow bank in a 12 feet truck with a pick up. Pretty difficult
Denis Germain
Last year we had 30" of snow in one storm. The biggest storm this year was a little over 12".... My dodge 2500 cummins diesel was able to push back the 4ft windrows and pushed 3 feet of snow with out too much trouble, thankfully it was dry snow last year.... This year its all been heavy wet snow, I still havent had any issues
Alan lol you don't know what your talking about.wow you got a big truck hahah. You can push snow. Don't you see those truck in the video, I think they can push more that your kitty Cummins with a plow. What you don't understand is where do you want to push the snow !! It MUST be removed not plow.
Or moved your goddam cars!
they did a nice clean job =)
Didn't Jane Burne replace him, and what was his name?
I would like to say to a lot of people answering here that maybe you can use your 4 by 4 pickup truck, or just push the snow on the side, but another snowstorm may arrive in 2-3 days. And then another one. So you have to REMOVE that snow, it will not melt before the ned of march.
A lot of people complain about how long it took for this one road but it has to be done. It would take a long time to melt and I would much rather do it now when it's all frozen and clean than when it's half melted heavy and really wet!
Stevie Munier also it was january. Snow starts to melt mid-march
If it takes about an hour per block long street do the math and realize a city like Montreal has a lot of work to do to clear all its streets. But it's human nature to want to be first and not have to wait.
Funny though.... I thought people would complain about the noise the trucks, scrapers and plows made when they finally got around to clearing the snow. But then I'm used to Americans.
Perfect!!!
ok, why they only remove 50% of the street?
I remember this. My side of the street sidewalk was never plowed until teh day they cleaned my side which was 7 days later. We had to mount a snow hill to get across the street. The worst part is they cleaned teh other side 3 days earlier. Bad decision making I tell you.
Regretably, you don't mention what part of the city the lack of snow removal took place?
Wow, amazing job 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice!! Thanks.
Dam that's some snow I love it
Who would have thought clearing snow would be so time consuming. Here in the UK, even if we get a lot of snow, it never stays around for more than a few days so it never gets removed in trucks. Was fascinating to watch.
Ugh that's to much snow but they did an awesome job cleaning up
What about the otherside of the street?
Next night then the cars form the sides that isnt clean (normally) the owners put the cars on the cleaned side
Just wondering why it took eight days for them to plow your street. I live in Ma. and 18 inches is not a crazy amount of snow. I have never waited even a few hours, crews run nonstop. They did do a nice job but eight days is way to long.
How hard can it be to move the cars to the other side of the road? There are three cars. Just move them and enjoy the clean street.
In Montreal its really hard actually. When I had a car parked there, took me more than an hour to move it after a snow storm.
I've seen snow plows pass a couple of times on a road , but never this type of cleaning with all this equipment. Montreal knows how to deal with snow.
can someone please explain why this is being recommend to me
Excellent job boys, come on down to the states and show them how it's done
That was pretty impressive.
Very well done...
Them are some huge snow snow banks!
What is wrong with the wheels on that plow at the end?
Nothing. Many graders have adjustable front wheels. I'm guessing they're adjusted here to counteract the sideways force of the angled blade.
While pushing the snow off to one side you can tilt the wheels to compensate for the direction, otherwise the front of the grader would slide to the left
What about the next block
Side walk cleaner is so cute!
They got all the machines they need & get it done GREAT
its amazing what these people do when we're asleep
Great job. Skilled people
that is insane the amount of resources for a single street, you guys aren't messing around. fascinating to watch. now contrast this with a souther us city like atlanta georgia the entire city shuts down for days if they get 1-2 inches of snow.
Hoping for a lot less snow this winter. Don't live there anymore but I remember trying to find a place to park in winter. What a nightmare.
That is amazing, as taxpayers people should expect more. I live in the Upper Midwestern snow region where anything under a foot is a dusting. The plows usually have the roads open, including the remote single lane rural roads within two hours of the end of the storm.
Expect more than what? Those guys are out there from day 1. Roads are prioritized, and I bet residential roads are the last to get done. Did you not see how time consuming that was? I'm guessing by your description you plow like we do and throw the snow off the shoulder and don't remove it. Montreal is a huge city with thousands of lane miles. Removing the snow is a lot different than plowing at 40mph
You want to see snow...go to Timmins and try and tunnel out of a basement apartment in January.
Are Canadian friends really get the snow. Nice job
We have the same commitment to clearing the snow. As soon as 2 inches is on the ground, the plows and salt trucks are on the road. But once the snow is cleared for driving, they start the process of removing the snow so people can park their cars. In the past, they were able to all of it in 3-5 days but this snow removal took longer primarily to budget cuts (we're embroiled in a corruption scandal) and the when this storm occurred (2 days after Xmas).
Hey, someone copied your video and posted it to their channel, search for "SNOW REMOVAL OPERATION QUEBEC" on the 'Lolodi Adventure' channel
Looks like Quebec really knows what they're doing when it comes to removing snow, they actually clean the streets for the people unlike in New York City where the sanitation department just runs along the street and burys your car and drive way with two feet of snow you just spent two back breaking hours to remove ,thank you very much guys.
they waited 8 days to get this cleaned ...lol if that happened in nyc the mayor would be strung up ... maybe a few % of nyc streets are this large
@@pattimac373 this actually did happen in New York City twice. The first time in 1969 when Mayor Lindsey abandon the borough of Queens for 2 weeks. And the last year of Bloomberg's third term we had the infamous Christmas snow storm with a sanitation slow down that didn't plow streets for over 10 days in Queens. Neither of these politicians suffered the consequences. Bloomberg actually had the audacity to blame the citizens for driving in the snow and the plows couldn't get through which is the furthest thing from the truth.
Nice vid,thx
job's done nice and video also
Wow, wonder what that cost?
3 beaver and an otter pelt.
The idiot that cleans up my drive way only, needs about $100 (30x120 feet) and even when offered him, he has no time or its Sat Sunday or TV has something he likes and he is not working!!!! Such is Government vs Private party work...
$10M by snow storm.
thank you , its amazing , im the future immigrant in montreal
the results are still amazing . I now have more sympathy for are Canadian friends
Now that's teamwork!
Why are they going down so many times in Winnipeg we aren’t allowed to park on the street during a certain times. Our snowploughs pass twice on one side and twice on the other and there done. Wow.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
That was my first winter in Montreal, and I say thank you to that winter. It pushed buying enough gear and jacket enough to handle another snow like that which hasn't happened again but I never had to worry about the snow again and finished my four year university in peace.
8 days! Omg... Here in Switzerland 8 hours of no cleaning is unheard of.
in my parts there would be a snow emergency declared and sections of town would be scheduled. North/South Streets one day and East/West the next day. And if your car does not get moved you get a ticket and a tow bill to have it moved to a clear street.
Here they will put the snow on your car if it is in the way!!
Multiply this street, by how many streets there are in Montreal. Yikes!
Over 2400 miles of roads on the island of Montreal.