Some HRM residents are raising concern over the lack of a plan to get emergency crews through unclears roads.

On Thursday, Mayor Mike Savage said he thinks the city can clear the streets without declaring a state of emergency. Some people in HRM living on Department of Transportation roads have concerns over this decision.

"To say this is not a state of emergency is ridiculous,” said Pat Dunphy.

Dunphy, 67, and his wife, 69, live near Queensland Beach. As of 7 a.m. Friday, they were still snowbound. He says he pays HRM taxes, but is told his street is the responsibility of the Department of Transportation.

Dunphy told CBC news the department hasn’t given him and his wife any indication of when their street will be cleared. Though, his "biggest concern" is that the province has not reassured anyone in his neighbourhood that "they have mechanisms in place with EMO to come and get us if something happens, because you’re not going to get a vehicle in here. The only way you could get in right now is by snowmobile."

Dunphy is not the only one worried about a contingency plan to access snow-bound roads in case of emergencies.

By 10:30 Friday morning Dunphy was assured by HRM the area would be dealt with in five hours.

"My concern is that in this day and age to leave people unable to leave their homes,” said Alison Egelhoff.

Her home in Seabright, though in HRM, is cleared by the Department of Transportation. While she told CBC news one lane of her street was cleared early Friday morning, for more than 48 hours she was snowbound, unable to make it down the road to assist her "very old" parents.

"We have gone over there religiously to help them to be able to get out of their home because I’m always concerned that they always have access to a vehicle or to services and we couldn’t go an help them. And they were calling me, wondering how things were and if we would be able to get over there and we weren’t able to do that because we couldn’t leave our own home," said Egelhoff.

People across the HRM are trying to figure out what to so with all the snow. On Bald Eagle Place in Halifax, residents on the cul-de-sac started shovelling their way out of the street when "one man, who handles tech equipment during heart surgeries, came back from hospital shift and couldn't get in."