Orrey Bromley is tired of shovelling snow out of his driveway.
“Yes, I am sick of this okay? But we all got to do what we got to do every year,” said the Wingham native.
However, this winter is much worse than previous years.
It’s been nearly a decade since midwestern Ontario has experienced a winter with so much relentless snow. Enough snow that people are now having to shovel off their rooves.
“I got a call. We were getting a lot of snow. This is bringing up a lot of ice buildup. So a couple of these apartments here kind of be leaking so here I am,” said Mike Whitlock, who was shoveling off rooves in Wingham on Monday.
The roadways aren’t much better.
Several roads across midwestern Ontario were closed today. Hardest hit Bruce County where snowplows were pulled from the roadways along the Bruce Peninsula around mid-afternoon due to the relentless snowsqualls and blowing snow making many roads unpassable.
“Yeah this morning there were some - you know - choice words looking out on the deck with the dogs, like really another almost foot of snow? Like enough already,” said Patricia, who was shoveling out her walkway in Wingham this morning.
As the snowbanks grow and grow, there is clearly winter fatigue setting in for midwestern Ontario’s faithful residents - but the options are to shake your fist at it, or dig in and dream of spring.
“Oh yeah. I think it’s time for mother nature to pack her bags up and go down south and play at Trump’s house. That’s what I think,” said Brian from Wingham.
“I come out here early, and do all this before I go to work. Get some of it done, and hopefully get the rest done after I come home from work,” said another tired snow shoveler.
“We’re working through all the snow. We’re managing with lots of food and you just kind of go with the snow and shoveling and plowing every day,” said Susan O’Brien from Wingham.
While there are sporadic breaks from snowfall in the coming weeks, this may go down as one of the most snow filled winters in decades - with no real end in sight until at least March.
