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Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)
Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)

Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)

Date2/2/1971
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  • Peel keeps digging out û and drifting in; More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic; Ontario Department of Highways' plows and snow loaders still fight to keep roads in northern Peel County open as they tackle 10-foot drifts on Highway 24 that have reduced parts of the road to a single lane. Men are working two 12-hour shifts a day; and the plows run constantly; but snow drifts back as fast as it is cleared.
  • Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in, More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic, Ontario Department of Highways' plo(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Peel keeps digging out ? and drifting in; More than a week after the big snowstorm that paralyzed highway traffic; Ontario Department of Highways' plows and snow loaders still fight to keep roads in northern Peel County open as they tackle 10-foot drifts on Highway 24 that have reduced parts of the road to a single lane. Men are working two 12-hour shifts a day; and the plows run constantly; but snow drifts back as fast as it is cleared.
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