The mayor of Cape Breton’s largest municipality says she wept Tuesday night when a huge snowplow rumbled down her street in Sydney, N.S., where she had been trapped with her family since a weekend storm dumped 150 centimetres of snow on the community.
“My three-year-old … was so excited,” Amanda McDougall said in an interview Wednesday, recalling the arrival of the plow.
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