To put the journalistic skills and local knowledge of the reporter in perspective, the article includes this:
Lethbridge is in the prairies, Pincher Creek is in the mountains, and they are 100 km apart... not so "nearby" (as nearby as, say, Montana), and each about 170 km from Calgary.Lethbridge, to the south of Calgary, received 30 centimetres of snow and nearby Pincher Creek was dealing with an excess of 40 centimetres.
It has been snowy here, a few hundred kilometres away in Edmonton. Took me an extra 20 minutes to drive in to work today. Four Russian-made Hakkapeliitta winter tires, no panic.