Canada is one of the coldest places in the world only after Antarctica and Russia
and therefore is one of the countries where more snow falls and still keeps its streets
snow-free. If you want to know how this country removes thousands of tons of snow in a single
day and where all those tons of snow go, in this video I am going to tell you.
The city of Montreal spends more than 166 million dollars each year to collect snow and put
salt on its more than 10,000 kilometers of roads. During the winter the island receives an average of
209 centimeters of snow and in general living in Canada is not for lazy people, shoveling the snow is not an
easy thing, especially when up to 15 or 20 centimeters of snow accumulates and when that
happens the The real challenge is not only removing all that snow is where to put it but soon
as the city sleeps the snow magically disappears, as if it had never been there.
The next day the Canadian streets are ready for the next winter storm
as all that snow disappears from the streets so quickly Removing the snow from the streets
and sidewalks of Montreal is an impressive task that requires the work of more than 1000
people each year and 1000 snow plow trucks and to collect that snow and transport it to a
snow dump another 3,000 people and 2,200 additional trucks are needed for this city
alone otherwise the snow melts, puddles are formed that freeze turning
into a hard mass of mud and ice so if the snow is not removed immediately any
freezing rain would transform the snow from the Canadian streets into death traps
and even in the city of montreal itself a snow storm that is not immediately attended
wreaks havoc on the city thousands of dollars and puts the lives of many passersby at risk.
Not even the police can intervene to prevent these accidents
the logistics of more than 3,000 trucks that remove snow in Montreal require
extraordinary accuracy especially to transport all this snow that is collected to the huge snow
dumps of the city that are everything a show these trucks are not owned by the city
mostly they are private contractors paid by the city to remove snow from their
streets first they start with sidewalks and busier streets then move
to smaller residential streets as As the hours go by, up to 300 dump trucks
line up every hour at the entrance doors of these huge snow dumps to dump
their piles of snow and be able to collect more the more snow they collect, the more
money they earn and to know how much snow each truck collects . Montreal
snow dump entrances on a sophisticated gps system on each truck and surveillance cameras installed
on the doors of the snow dumps an electronic system monitors and records each
load to verify that trucks enter the dump only when their containers are
fully full the system also receives the electronic signals from each truck to know
which streets in the city that snow comes from, thus ensuring that each driver works on the route
assigned by the system once the electronic system receives this data At the
entrance gates, trucks are authorized to dump snow into these huge holes in the city. At
the end of an average winter in Montreal, around 300 thousand snow-filled
trips are made , forming hundreds of pyramids over 60 meters high. height each in the
more than 12 snow dumps and 15 sewer dumps where snow is poured
into massive tunnels and sent to a water treatment facility these mountains of snow
have a very bad smell and most of them never completely melt even during
the hottest summers on the island and the city purchases more than 200,000 tonnes of salt a year to
that once the trucks move the salt from the roads the rest melts and the streets
of the city are free of snow the reason why the city of montreal is considered one
of the most efficient in the world in the removal of snow It is because this is where the
first snow plow truck was invented it was a Montreal area milk delivery man Arthur Sicard who
invented the first snow blower tired of climbing the snow banks to deliver
the milk Sicard created a machine with a similar apparatus to an auger and a fan attached to
the front of his truck that could mechanically cut the snow off the street and blow it
up to the cargo trucks with his invention artur himself left From being a simple milk delivery boy
to becoming a snow entrepreneur the old town of Auto Mont in the far north
of Montreal was his first customer in 1927 and when Sicard died in 1946 he was hailed as a genius a
hero who changed the city from Montreal during the winter and in his honor they named the
street where he invented his first snow blower truck “La Rue Sicard de Montreal” after him. After
his death the private construction and landscaping companies bought the snow
removal machines to perform the snow removal work in the city today half of the
snow operations in Montreal are carried out by private companies the value of each contract
varies from $ 40,000 to $ million depending on the length of the
contract assignment , snow truck operators are paid $ 20 to $ 50
per hour based on their experience and skill, and snow shovels can earn up to $
30 per Nowadays, the precision with which both shovelers, sweepers and dump trucks
remove snow from the city is so extraordinary that the inhabitants of Montréal
have already become accustomed to seeing the snow disappear from their streets overnight.
snow are so surprising at times that the snow does not disappear as instantly as its
inhabitants would like but without a doubt the ability to sync oneia with which thousands of tons of snow
disappear from the streets of the Canadian city is admired by the countries with the harshest
winters around the world although the city is responsible for removing snow from the streets
each person is responsible for removing snow their garages and sidewalks front of their
houses according to the regulations of clearing snow and ice from the city of Toronto each person must
remove snow from entering and the front of his stool after 12 hours after
that A snowstorm ends and if it does not, the fines can go from 135 dollars and
more, so it is the responsibility of each person to remove the snow from their forehead and if you liked
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