The province says it's ready, if Friday's Nor'easter comes in as forecast.
The official beginning of the "winter season" for the department of transportation used to be December 1.

However after last year's fiasco on the Cobequid Pass, Cathy MacIssac with the deparment says crews are now ready, for November 1.

And they'll be keeping an extra close eye on the Cobequid Pass.
"There's a number of recommendations that were made following the incident that happened there, one of them being start up the winter season earlier," says MacIssac.

Safety rule number one, if you don't have to go out, don't.

However if you must, metro's top traffic cop, Sgt. Mike Spearns says you need to drive according to the conditions.

"Drivers that are impatient, they get ahead of three cars, they bump into a vehicle and four cars are off he road."

He adds, just because you have winter tires, you're not invincible.