Blizzard continues to pound southeast Sask.
CBC
While many people in southeastern Saskatchewan woke up to a relatively mild morning, those conditions didn't last for long.
Much of the area, including Estevan, Weyburn, Moosomin and Grenfell, was under a blizzard warning on Wednesday. Those areas are expected to receive anywhere from 20 to 50 centimetres of snow over the next several days, along with wind gusts of up to 70 km/h.
As of 11 a.m. CST, the Trans-Canada highway was closed at the Manitoba border, with travel not recommended on roads in the far southeast corner of the province as well as all roads around Estevan.
"I think people expected to have woken up to five inches of snow," said Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang.
"But that's not the nature of these types of storms. It's just getting itself going."
Lang expects the southeast will see steady snowfall over most of the day, with the heaviest happening closer to the U.S. border.
She said the heavy snow along with gusty winds will likely make travel treacherous.
Meanwhile, in the town of Moosomin, Sask., just a few kilometres west of the Manitoba border, residents were doing their best to get ready for the storm.
Bernadette Nosterud, the property manager of Pipestone Villas, an independent living seniors complex, said she was advising her residents to stay close to home.
"We try and keep the walkways cleared here as best we can, but downtown, sometimes, it's a little bit trickier," she said.
"They're well taken care of."
Nosterud said she was grateful this storm was taking place during warmer weather, and not at -40 C. She said the complex has access to a generator supplied by the town in the event of a large power failure.
"We're hoping that it doesn't get to that point," she said.
"So I told everyone, get your blankets, woolly socks and sweaters out just in case."
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