Hydro crews in Quebec worked on Thursday to restore power ahead of the Easter long weekend after a fierce ice storm left more than one million customers in the dark and led to the death of a man who was crushed by a tree.
Provincial police said a man in his 60s died Thursday morning when he was crushed by a tree branch while attempting to cut down branches on his property in Les Coteaux, Que., southwest of Montreal.
Still, residential streets across Montreal on Thursday were treacherous, with fallen ice-covered tree branches littering sidewalks and roads and crushing parked cars. Downed power lines were everywhere.Article content In contrast to 1998, when a series of storms damaged about 1,500 transmission towers along the St. Lawrence Valley, Wednesday’s bout of freezing rain left Hydro-Quebec’s main distribution network largely intact, Fitzgibbon said. “I think that the concentration of the outages at the level of the circuit breakers, we think that it will be under control very quickly.”Article content
“It’s not at all like the ice storm of 1998,” Legault said. “First, because we’re in April and not January — that means it’s not forecasted that there will be three or four days of freezing rain. We’re already seeing the temperature improving.” “We’re talking about $100 billion,” he said of the estimated cost to bury all lines. “We have to be realistic.”.Earlier Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited his Montreal riding of Papineau alongside Mayor Valerie Plante.
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Fierce storm system leaves more than a million without power in Quebec and OntarioA fierce storm system that brought thunder, lightning, snow and freezing rain to parts of Quebec and Ontario has left more than one million hydro customers still in the dark.
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