Endless winter and another parking ban in Halifax

The whine of spinning tires is broken only by the mind-numbing beep, beep, beep of a snowplow backing up to take another run at the mountain of snow outside the window.

Once in a while, the cacophony is accented by the passing siren of another police cruiser racing to a collision on icy roads.

Less than two months from now, this will all be a distant memory, something to laugh about in the cheery sunshine of early spring.

For now, however, there is snow to shovel and ice to chip, salt to spread, expletives to well, you get the idea.

Oh, and once again in the Halifax region, there is the little problem of where to park your vehicle overnight.

There is a parking ban instituted for tonight so crews can be out there clearing the snow away, Jennifer Stairs, senior communications adviser with Halifax Regional Municipality, said Tuesday.

We want to get (snow) carried away before the storm comes on Thursday.

Tuesday would be the fourth night in a row the municipality announced enforcement of the parking ban, which is enforced during declared snow and ice events and when snow removal is in progress.

Tuesdays ban is the 13th time it was enforced this season, compared to 14 last year.

Before Sundays snowstorm, the municipality had loaded the equivalent of 1,900 dump trucks full of snow in attempting to clear the streets.

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Endless winter and another parking ban in Halifax