The latest figures from the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), which the meteorological service considers definitive for the multi-day storm, show 82cm of snow falling on Onanole and as low as 13cm in Miami and the Woodlands.
Killarney and Selkirk reported 60 and 45 cm of snow respectively, with Winnipeg receiving somewhere between 25-35 cm.
The ECCC’s initial forecasts were for 30-50 cm of snowfall in most areas, with local snowfalls likely to be much higher.
In a video posted on Facebook by Wasagaming on Thursday, located about five miles north of Onanole, the deep snow in the middle made touring the yard a challenge in itself.
The weather forced the 30-year-old veteran truck driver, Gord Haveri, to take off the road in Saskatchewan on Thursday, after leaving Swift Current yesterday. It reached Balgonie, about 25 km east of Regina.
Halfway through Hwy1, west of Portage La Prairie on April 15 (Scott Anderson, CTV News)
Halfway through Hwy 1 west of Portage La Prairie, April 15 (Scott Andersson, CTV News)
“I have never seen anything like it,” Hevery said. “The highway has never been closed so much.”
Haveri said the truck stop where he was staying to overcome the storm was full, with at least 200 other vehicles, but now traffic has started to move again.
The Balgonie truck stop is full of unfinished highways waiting to open (Source: Gord Havery)
“It will be a tiring day. “I hope all the other drivers know this, you know, just because they’re late does not mean they should fly on the highway because there are probably still icy sections,” Haveri said.
The storm also threw enough snow south of the border.
Snow accumulated on the front door of the house in Minot, North Dakota (Source: Rosalie Rodgers)
Outside the front door of the Minot North Dakota home (Source: Rosalie Rodgers)
Photographs taken in Minot, North Dakota, about 50 miles south of the Manitoba border, show drifts stacked on roofs, vehicles and the ground, forcing people to open a path just to get out of the house.
According to the National Weather Service, the northwest Minot fell about three feet of snow.
In Bismark, they had the biggest snowfall in April, with just over a foot and a half of snow breaking a 2013 record.
Snow Surrounds Truck in Minot, North Dakota (Source: Rosalie Rodgers)
Minot, North Dakota (Source: Rosalie Rodgers)