Cape Breton's Snow Budget Blown by $500K

0:00It's April 7, Vancouver news today starts now, AI-powered and ready. K-Bretton Regional Municipality just blew through its snow removal budget by $500,000, this brutal winter. They started with $5.3 million set aside, but now, they're looking at $5.8 million total because of back-to-back storms, pounding the area. Local plow boss Paul Dallas-Sandro, who's been at it over 30 years in Whitney Pier, says this season crushed last year's workload. His crew logged just 82 hours on municipal streets then, but they've doubled it to 146 hours already. Counselor Gordon McDonald isn't sweating the overrun too much. He figures with all the overtime from snow, freezing rain, and overnight salting, it's par for the course in a winter this wild. Spokespeople confirm the numbers based on current estimates, and no big cuts or changes are on the table yet. The course snow hits parts of Nova Scotia tonight into tomorrow, so crews stay geared up while budgets stretch thin.