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Ten years ago today there was a weather phoneme that had never been seen in eastern Canada and the East coast of the United States.

Several storms collided and cause an ice storm never ever seen before.

Over five days more frozen rain fell then usually falls in years,

Ice was everywhere. It covered sidewalks, roads, cars, and more importunately power lines.Power towers fell like match sticks and radios stations went silent.

Regions of the province were without electricity for not just hours or days but the aftermath of the storm regions were with out power for weeks. Many retail operations were shut down and areas of the Montreal downtown were SHUT !!! Disaster relief centers where people could find food & shelter and a bed abounded

The store where I was working in Dorval was powerless for four days.

As a silver cloud to this story, my apartment had power (how boring is that?)
But my friend Wayne in Chateauguay had no power. Now Wayne being Wayne saw the glass as half full. As a result there was a party. There was a fire in the fire place and supper on the Bar Bq. Not just a few friends there but I am sure there was at least thirty people, eating, laughing, and signing off key. Wayne was without power for as I remember over two week. Best party I was ever at So for the storm of ’98 a tip of the hat to Wayne, Jocelyne, Terry and Wendy.

Can it happen again?? Maybe.

So that things are in perspective, close to thirty people died as a result of the event. To the family and friends of those people God bless.

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-258/disasters_tragedies/ice_storm/