Quebec has snow!
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My sister and I drove up Friday through light snow, to a small town near Quebec City. We could see from the plow banks that there was considerable snow, but it wasn't clear how much until we reached our host's. Here we see:
- 2-1/2 to 3' of snow on the woodshed roof (the sloping section at the back of the house).
- The tent structures he erects around the doors and porch to reduce snow blowing against the doors and prevent blocking them.
- The smaller of his two tractors, both rigged like this - scoop on the front, snowblower on the back.
This turns out to be the traditional tractor rig. In a small village, or with narrow frontages, you can't just plow the snow, you have to actively get it out of the area. This is a very small town - a single road down the middle, with no side streets - but the municipality has two large tractors with this rig, and there are two private individuals with similar big snowblowers if you can't clear your own snow. Conventional large gas-powered snowblowers of the type we're familiar with are common, but there's a limit to how far they can throw snow. The "blowbanks" (as opposed to "snowbanks" or "plowbanks") can get as high or higher than the buildings. I watched one of the municipal tractors clearing in front of the town garage; he would use the scoop to collect the snow into "windrows", then would back the tractor along, blowing the snow into neighboring areas (you can control the chute direction from the cab).
- 2-1/2 to 3' of snow on the woodshed roof (the sloping section at the back of the house).
- The tent structures he erects around the doors and porch to reduce snow blowing against the doors and prevent blocking them.
- The smaller of his two tractors, both rigged like this - scoop on the front, snowblower on the back.
This turns out to be the traditional tractor rig. In a small village, or with narrow frontages, you can't just plow the snow, you have to actively get it out of the area. This is a very small town - a single road down the middle, with no side streets - but the municipality has two large tractors with this rig, and there are two private individuals with similar big snowblowers if you can't clear your own snow. Conventional large gas-powered snowblowers of the type we're familiar with are common, but there's a limit to how far they can throw snow. The "blowbanks" (as opposed to "snowbanks" or "plowbanks") can get as high or higher than the buildings. I watched one of the municipal tractors clearing in front of the town garage; he would use the scoop to collect the snow into "windrows", then would back the tractor along, blowing the snow into neighboring areas (you can control the chute direction from the cab).
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