Freezing rain fell on eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec. It fell and did not melt, transforming the outdoors into a beautiful and lethal crystalline world.
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Rosen’s family was without power for 10 days. He remembers entering a Canadian Tire store in Gatineau looking like a sasquatch and combing through candles and batteries like he was the last human on earth. “We couldn’t get to the electrical distribution towers because of the ice and deep snow. The military were Godsends. They had tanks and armoured vehicles that could drive through deep snow dragging equipment to rebuild the towers.”
In the aftermath, assessments of the how to storm was handled varied. Area power utilities spent precious time fighting among themselves and Ontario may have to step in and ensure that this never happens again, concluded an independent study by emergency management consultant Joe Scanlon. Almost everything worked — with the exception of some theft and price gouging of crucial portable generators, said Fyfe in March 1998. Town councils co-operated, declared states of emergency, brought in the military, set up shelters, and organized whole convoys of hydro line crews.
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