Timmins is digging out after being buried under piles of snow.
The massive winter storm that hit Northern Ontario walloped the areas of Timmins and Kapuskasing pretty hard. While Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie were forecasted to receive snowfall levels in the 20 cm range, Timmins and area was forecasted to receive at least double that.
And it appears the forecast was accurate. Snowdrifts in parts of Timmins are reportedly nearly two meters high in some areas. The storm closed hundreds of kilometres of road along the Highway 11 corridor, blanketing the roadways in more than a foot of snow and making travel impossible in some regions.
The job of digging out continues.