Snowed in

Andrew Tompsett found his driveway had a drift right down the middle. Photo localstock.ca

By Greg Holden

By now, most people in Chatham-Kent are fed up with winter. After suffering with a wind chill of -40 C earlier in January, the latter part of the month has provided ample snow, ice, wind and inconvenience.

Often overlooked, until you can’t see over them, are snow drifts and Chatham-Kent has our fair share.

Rod Wellington submitted photos of a car that was snowed in at Southside Estates in Chatham. Wellington said, “This amount of snow is unprecedented for the area. I walked up to the driveway before noticing there was a car buried under there.” Husband and wife team Gord and Debbie See took six hours to dig out their neighbours car from snow that Debbie See describes as “Just like concrete. This is the most snow we have seen in the eight years we have spent here”, said See.

Andrew Tompsett spent four hours digging himself out of a drift that nearly consumed his house. “Luckily we have a second exit that was not as bad as the main door”, Tompsett said. The drift on his driveway sat almost directly in the middle, ensuring Tompsett’s afternoon was spoken for.

High winds and low temperatures are expected to last until Monday.

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