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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2015-01-27 11:36 AM, wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:13:39 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>> I do not live in Toronto but didn't see a problem with calling in the
>> military to help out with a natural disaster. It wasn't like they called
>> them in to use the streets.
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> The problem was that it was a very minor storm

It wasn't exactly minor. They had had a series of storms and over a
period of two weeks they had 114 cm of snow... about 3 feet. That is
not minor in a city. In a rural area you can plow it over to the
shoulders, but you can''t do that on narrow city streets. The city was
struggling to keep major routes cleared but there lots of smaller
streets that they were unable to get to. They used the military and its
Bisons to provide emergency services when other vehicles could not get
to them.

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>> I don't understand why people try to make such an issue of Toronto
>> asking for assistance from the military in that situation but not about
>> them being called in to help with the ice storm damage in eastern
>> Ontario and Quebec. There were only 400 troops called in to help in
>> Toronto. There were 16,000 sent to deal with the ice storm.
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> The ice storm blanketed four provinces, nobody had power, it was
> urgent urgent to get round the houses and get elderly people out
> before they died of cold. That was just the beginning of the urgency.
> I know in Halifax apart from all the ice there were so many old, huge
> trees brought down, across roads or worse yet through houses. The
> whole thing was a terrible mess. Many died here one way and another.

Toronto is not entitled to 400 troops in an emergency situation, but a
smaller number of people over a larger area are entitled to 40 times
that number? I think that the millions of taxpayers in Toronto are
entitled to something for their money.

> Anyway, so far so good here. They were correct the winds are just
> beginning to really zoom, snow is flying horizontally past my window.
> Now what it is going to be like up in Cheticamp, I can't imagine
> They reckoned their gusts would run 120+.

Ouch. I would imagine that Cheticamp would be desolate enough at any
time in the winter, never mind a blizzard.
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