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Big winter storm hammers Canada
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Approximately 200,000 people in Canada’s largest city were still without power following a weekend ice storm that wreaked havoc from southwestern Ontario to Canada’s Atlantic Coast, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said yesterday.
“We believe that the worst weather is over,” Ford said. About 75,000 people had power restored in the city overnight, he added.
Freezing rain across much of eastern Canada on Sunday turned roads and sidewalks into skating rinks and hit holiday plans at one of the busiest travel times of the year.
The first full day of winter also brought ice and high wind in the upper US Midwest and northeastern New England states and flooding in the South.
Snow and ice knocked out power to 400,000 homes and businesses in Michigan, upstate New York and northern New England.
It could be several days before the lights are back on everywhere.
At least nine deaths were blamed on the storm in the US — five killed in flooding in Kentucky, three traffic deaths in Oklahoma, and a woman who died after a tornado with winds of 209 kph struck in Arkansas.
Meanwhile, five people were killed in eastern Canada in highway crashes blamed on severe weather conditions.
Ford called it one of the worst storms in Toronto’s history.
Anxious passengers found themselves stranded in airports from Toronto to St John’s, Newfoundland.
Police warned people to stay off snow and ice-covered roads if possible.
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