Yesterday, an ice storm ravaged most of southern Quebec, leaving one million households without power.
Many trees fell in Montreal and its surrounding towns while many school boards cancelled classes for the day.
Hydro-Quebec continues to scramble to bring electricity back to its customers. Of the million affected, nearly half of them reside in Montreal.
Montreal producer Nicholas Craven is back from LA, and he shared a few photos of the carnage on his Twitter feed.
Montreal right now
Another Montreal artist, Patrick Holland, checked out his frozen car to find a parking ticket stuck on the windshield.
I love spring
Notable Montreal Twitter user FNoMtl posted a video of a tree falling in the middle of a residential street, hitting multiple cars in its descent.
The ice storm content really went from ASMR to Final Destination pretty quickly. #fnomtl #mtlmoments IG @/clautheshow
Photographer Andrej Ivanov tweeted a series of photos of damaged vehicles and fallen trees.
Some frames from the ice storm today in Montreal. For @AFPphoto
Twitch content creator Cleaven D’Haïti shared another video of a fallen tree in Montreal, showing just how much damage the storm caused.
#Montreal #Quebec #icestorm #blackice #verglas #arbre #tree #trees.
The ice storm also landed in Ottawa, where the city’s fire services tweeted a video of a tree lit on fire.
🎥 A video from one of our current calls. ‼️Please stay far away from all downed wires & treat all wires as if they are live.‼️ #Ottawa #OttCity #IceStorm #OttNews #OttawaStorm #OttawaIceStorm
Tree fires weren’t exclusive to Ottawa as one Montrealer caught a fire spreading from a tree to a power line.
I hope everyone is safe in Montreal. About 1/3 of all Hydro Quebec customers don’t have power. Bigger risks like fires are the worrisome 2nd order effects. I hope those hydro workers are given grace too, it won’t be an easy week after this ice storm.
The conditions got so dire, Transport Quebec shut down the Victoria Bridge which leads to the city’s southern suburbs.
According to CTV News, Hydro-Quebec aims to restore power back to a third of the afflicted customers by Friday morning. Some households, however, might only have their power restored within a few days.
