TWO YEARS AGO: Snowstorm for the ages hammered Mississauga [Video]

The first major winter storm to hit Mississauga this year arrived last Friday and caused some traffic and air travel headaches here and there.

City of Mississauga snowplows quickly cleared the roads and sidewalks, people dug out — to the extent there was any real digging out to do — and life moved on.

Contrast that with the scene in Mississauga, and elsewhere in the GTA, two years ago today and the few days that followed when an “epic snowstorm,” a “storm for the ages” and an “historic winter storm” slammed into the city, crippling local and air transportation and trapping many people inside their homes.

The “storm for the ages” was made worse when a second snowstorm, major enough in its own right, struck the city and surrounding areas some 24 hours later — adding significantly to the 45 centimetres of snow that had fallen in some areas of …