The first couple of bouts of winter-like weather this year pale in comparison to the blizzard that hammered the area 10 years ago in mid-December. What became known as Snowmageddon stalled about 200 tractor-trailers and more than 120 cars in their tracks. Strathroy-Caradoc Mayor Joanne Vanderheyden remembers the multi-day storm seemed somewhat routine to start with.
Two Griffon military helicopters were employed to rescue motorists from stranded vehicles and in one case performed a medical evacuation.