Iqaluit city services resume Wednesday afternoon
Bad weather forced suspension of water delivery, garbage collection and kept offices closed during morning
A snow plow returns to the road after a blizzard suspended city services in Iqaluit earlier this month. The City of Iqaluit said municipal services will reopen Wednesday afternoon after being closed for the morning due to bad weather. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Updated Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 11:50 a.m.
Municipal services are resuming Wednesday afternoon after severe winter weather forced them to close for the morning.
City offices and recreational facilities will open at 1 p.m. and an update on when trucked services will be restored is expected by 2 p.m., the City of Iqaluit announced in a public service announcement.
Main roads and collector roads, such as Ring Road, Federal Road and Apex Road, have been cleared of snow but some secondary roads might still be inaccessible, the announcement said.
The city asked people to move their vehicles off the road so snow removal can continue. Vehicles that are impeding snow removal can be impounded and the owner fined, the announcement warned.
Blowing snow and reduced visibility forced the City of Iqaluit to keep its facilities closed early Wednesday. That included keeping water, sewer, garbage and snow-removal vehicles off the road.
The city also asked people to reduce their water consumption until municipal services fully resumed.
Note: This story was updated to include information on reopening of municipal services.
ITS , CALLED A BLIZZARD .
With 1.6 KM visibility and winds 51KM-65KM, that aint a blizzard. Its just a regular day in Nunavut.
Up here in Clyde River, we call it “Local blowing snow”. Not a blizzard.
In Nunavik , when snow is falling , we call it ” snowing ”
Here in Kivalliq; Natiguvik. Kids are playing outside…City; ssshhh,,,you could hear my eyeballs rolling….
On behalf of the residents of Rankin Inlet, Arviat, and most other communities in Nunavut…what. Seriously?
Rankin and Arviat population about 6,000 people.
All of Kitikmeot Population little over 7000 people
Iqaluit population about 8,500 people.
All of Iqaluit streets equal to rest of Nunavut communities put together.
The GN lets so many other communities go through much worse weather without a peep. Guess whoever calls the shots in Iqaluit was feeling like a day off today. 1.6km visibility, oh no, look out. Won’t have time to slow down when I see you from 2.5 minutes away.
Team arviat needs to go teach them how to work in blizzards lol
Stave u were living in Arviat and how bad it get here and u call that a blizzard or was it someone else call that.
Extreme Cold Warning with a side of salt in these comments.
Good on the City and GN for putting the notices out early this morning before most people started their commute to work.
I always come to these articles to see all the big-tough-northerners blab about how they handle weather.
I had to stretch after having my feet up all morning.