Pam Leader, a resident of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada, was snowed in her home for three days. Grocery shops are open for a few hours a day as a state of emergency has been declared.

A 12-year-old girl has been found alive after being buried under snow for 18 hours when an avalanche ... around a fire in their three-storey house when the avalanche hit. "We didn't hear a rumble.