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Health among many services disrupted in Nova Scotia snowstorm aftermath

Coast guard cadets called in to help as Cape Breton digs out from record snowfall
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Nova Scotia Health says non-emergency services in its Eastern zone will continue to be reduced following a weekend snowstorm. A truck is abandoned on a snow-covered street after a winter storm in Sydney, N.S. on Monday, Feb.5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Shane Wilkie

The mayor of Cape Breton’s largest municipality says she wept Tuesday night when a huge snowplow rumbled down her street in Sydney, N.S., where she had been trapped with her family since a weekend storm dumped 150 centimetres of snow on the community.

“My three-year-old … was so excited,” Amanda McDougall said in an interview Wednesday, recalling the arrival of the plow.

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