Why Montreal's snow-fighting army is the envy of other Canadian cities

Open this photo in gallery: Snow is blown into a hill at the Agrignon snow deposit site in Montreal on Feb. 21.Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press First you hear the sirens, reminiscent of an air raid warning: dee-duh, dee-duh, dee-duh. Then an armada of trucks, awesome in scale and might. Private property is impounded; residents run scared. It is not a military invasion - not exactly - but the routine process of snow removal, or déneigement, in Montreal. This unsnowing, to translate literally, is one of the most impressive such efforts in the world - even more so this week when…