Lived in Winterpeg for a couple of years and folks out there I knew showed me similar pics... Of particular interest were those photos where one family exited out of the upstairs bedroom window and dug from the top down to clear a path from the front door to the street.... At it's highest point, the snow tunnel looked to be 5 or 6 feet high
The one upside to our having a fair amount of snow on the ground is that the cold snaps we had probably did not result in the ground getting a deep frost... If this is the case, it won't take nearly as long to thaw and the melt can be absorbed into the soil faster rather than it running overland and loading-up the river basins as fast adding to the flooding problems.
Wait and see is all we can do at this point