A woman who tired of waiting for city workers to clear snow from her street in Laval, Que., forked out $4,000 to buy her family a snowplow.
Dimitra Provias and her family now clear snow from their quiet crescent after every snowfall, to their neighbours' delight. Quebec has seen near record snowfall this past winter, and Provias said snow clearing and removal was a big problem on Gibbon Street early on in the season.
"When they don't clean the snow and we have people parking on either sides of the street, we really can't get through with a car, or an ambulance. It's impossible to get through," she told the CBC.
That's when her husband, Peter Spindler, said, "Enough is enough" and the family decided to buy a snowplow.
They found a deal on an attachable plow in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and spent $4,000 to get the yellow steel blade back to Laval.
Dimitra Provias bought her family this snowplow, left, to clear their suburban street. Next to her is a City of Laval snowplow.
(Martin C. Barry/Laval News) Their neighbour, Christina Sfetsios, said she's so relieved the Provias-Spindler family took the lead on solving Gibbon Street's snow problem. "We've been very disappointed with our city and the snow removal," she said.
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Dimitra Provias and her family now clear snow from their quiet crescent after every snowfall, to their neighbours' delight. Quebec has seen near record snowfall this past winter, and Provias said snow clearing and removal was a big problem on Gibbon Street early on in the season.
"When they don't clean the snow and we have people parking on either sides of the street, we really can't get through with a car, or an ambulance. It's impossible to get through," she told the CBC.
That's when her husband, Peter Spindler, said, "Enough is enough" and the family decided to buy a snowplow.
They found a deal on an attachable plow in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and spent $4,000 to get the yellow steel blade back to Laval.
(Martin C. Barry/Laval News)
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Do you and your neighbours help each other out when your street doesn't get plowed quickly enough? How?
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