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Friday, November 26, 2010
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White blanket hits Langley hard
An early morning snowfall made for a treacherous commute on Thursday morning.
One car slid down an embankment near Rawlison Crescent and 232nd Street. The car was badly battered and the driver had to be extracted by Township firefighters. “Usually when they say they extricate them they have pull the by Matthew Claxton and Heather car apart to some extent,” said acting assistant fire chief Bryant Colpitts Ross. news@langleyadvance.com Firefighters and other emerSnow began falling in the early gency responders were also hours of Thursday, and by the called out to deal with a number time Langley residents woke to of other cars that wound up in go to work or school, it was time the ditches, some upside down. to dig out. Fortunately, Ross said there Several inches of snow fell were no known serious injuries in most parts of Langley, keepresulting from the crashes as of ing road clearing crews busy yet. overnight and The job of clearMORE throughout the ing all the snow off PHOTOS day. Forecasts the road went to ONLINE called for 10 to 15 City and Township centimetres. crews, who were up WWW.MRTIMES.COM Langley through the night. Township saw a “We kept four number of car accidents linked trucks on overnight, just to be to the snow during the course of on the safe side,” said Township the morning. roads and drainage manager Terry Veer. Trucks sprayed brine on the roads even before the snow started falling. Once the flurries began between 1 and 2 a.m., all the drivers were called in and they began plowing as well as salting and sanding. “We’re still on first priority roads,” Veer said at noon. With the snow still coming down, plow drivers were concentrating on major routes, and leaving secondary roads and residential streets to their own devices. “We’re looking at pretty close to six inches in some areas,” Veer said of the snowfall. While the snow may have slowed down traffic, it didn’t let Heather Colpitts/Langley Advance children off the hook. A Honda Ridgeline 4x4 was hauled up an Most kids didn’t get a snow embankment after the driver and his small day when the white stuff started falling Thursday. dog were rescued Thursday morning.
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Brody MacRory, three, didn’t seem to mind having snow in his eyes after sliding down a slope Thursday morning at Meadows Edge Park. All Langley public schools were open. The only impact was that Langley School District special needs buses weren’t running. That affected up to 135 students. Special needs busing is a door to door service. “With conditions worsening through the day, it was felt that the district might not be able to return students home safely at the end of the school day,” explained Craig Spence, the district communications manager. “There are also issues of access for some special needs students, which pose increasing levels of risk as snow accumulates.”
The Kings School, a private school with about 130 students at 21783 76B Ave., was closed due to the weather. It was likewise for Credo Christian schools and Langley Christian schools in Murrayville, and St. Catherine’s Catholic School in Brookswood. As with the first snowfall of the season, last weekend, Langley City firefighters were pleased to see no serious crashes or other problems cropping up on their roads. Deputy chief Pete Methot described conditions during the morning commute as “remarkably quiet.”