ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[tomh009]

The last time over 30 cm of snow fell in a single event was 2008.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...storm.html

Thanks for that information. Looks like I might be slightly exaggerating. But still, only a little because we’ve had lots of storms where enough snow fell that it made travel difficult; the exact amount of snow isn’t hugely important. If they’d said once in 10 years I’d have to eat crow right about now.

15 cm might trigger a snow day for schools, but for the LRT, 30 cm is much more than twice as bad. Combine the train ground clearance with the excess snow being plowed onto the tracks, and you get a mess like we had now. At 15 cm we would have been OK, maybe even at 20 cm.