Some of you may find this interesting. Here are the plowing timelines here in NS.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/tran/winter/Win...eStandards.pdf
I live approx 40 km's from Halifax and even during a storm the snowplow can be seen several times going around our subdivision. Even if we have a large dumping of snow through the night most of the roads are pavement for the drive into work the next day.