Snowmaggedon bears a hefty price tag.

They're calling it The Big Storm, and it came with a big price tag.  
The final bill is in for the brutal blizzard - Snowmaggedon as it became known - that hammered London in December and left the city largely paralyzed for nearly a week, and it's a doozy.
In total, the snowstorms between Dec. 5 and Dec. 13, lumped together by city officials as The Big Storm, cost city hall $1.7 million. To put in context, the average two-day storm costs about $300,000.
The costs, associated with road clearing and other city efforts, are understandable given the magnitude of the storm: It's considered London's biggest blizzard of the last half-century, with as much as 160 centimetres blanketing the city during those eight days.
That one-week snowfall eclipsed the entire snowfall of the mild 2009-10 winter. It equalled about two-thirds the snow London gets during an average winter.
City hall's 2010 winter maintenance budget wound up with a final deficit of $1.4 million. That "extraordinary cost," city staff says, can be covered through a departmental surplus and the city's severe weather reserve fund.
The facts and figures from The Big Storm will be presented to council's built and natural environment committee Monday night.