Heavy snowfall blankets region

Blizzard conditions - A major snowfall event that struck across Ontario last weekend landed particularly hard on northern Wellington. Some estimates indicated as much as 100mm of snow fell between Feb. 28 and March 1. Roads across the region were closed at times and the County of Wellington pulled all plows off roads in areas north of the Grand River from 8pm on Feb. 27 until about 5:15am on Feb. 28. Libraries and other municipal facilities were closed around the county for much of Friday as officials urged drivers to stay off the roads. Emergency responders dealt with numerous accidents, including a Feb. 28 incident in which a driver was taken by air ambulance to a Toronto hospital with “life-altering” injuries following a crash with a loaded cattle truck at about 4pm on Wellington Road 12 in Mapleton.