Downed hydro lines, trees and abandoned vehicles are hampering snow-clearing efforts in Gravenhurst Monday, officials with the town say, after intense snow squalls battered parts of Ontario over the weekend.

Snow-clearing crews are making progress after an intense weekend storm battered parts of Ontario, allowing Highway 11 north of Toronto to reopen on Monday.

The Town of Gravenhurst is in recovery mode after 140 centimetres of snow fell over the weekend, marking the town’s most significant early snowfalls on record.

Ontario Provincial Police say they expect to reopen Highway 11 this afternoon after significant snowfall in the area over the weekend. OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says crews are still working to clear the snow and they hope to reopen the northbound lanes of the highway around noon and the southbound lanes later in the afternoon.