I was there for that.
I happened to stay home from work that day. Wasn’t planning it but the ride home the night before was so awful, I decided to take a call in vacation day.
I was about to go in but my ride had already left so I didn’t, and 15 minutes later, WHAM.
Never saw such a white out in my life.
We could not even see the house next door across those narrow little driveways with 3 feet of lawn next to the house next door. Couldn’t have been more than 10 - 12 feet between houses.
Toronto sent the Metro-Melter.
From what I remember of the machine, it was pretty neat.
It drove down the street, loading snow in front, then melting it internally, squirting anti-freeze into the melt water, then dumping the water out the back to run down into the sewer.