http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/major-ice-storm-headed-for-ontario-1.2472721
Well, it looks like I managed to arrive in T.O. just in time for a major ice storm, which may include major power outages and a virtual shut down of the city.
Last summer I arrived just before a record-breaking heat wave. Hmn… pathetic fallacy notwithstanding, I can’t help but feel a little responsible.
Sorry Toronto!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfcNRWefEEU Memories of the Montreal Ice Storm of 1998. My then-partner and I arrived back in Montreal just in time to be part of one of the city’s worst natural disasters. I remember how surprised we were as we drove into town by truckloads of soldiers on Rue St-Laurent: the first time Canadian soldiers were deployed in Montreal since La crise d’octobre of 1970, when the FLQ kidnapped government officials and the Wartime Measures Act was enacted during peacetime for the first – and only? – time in Canadian history.
We came through that ice storm unscathed, not losing heat or electricity. I remember how eerie it was to walk up St. Laurent at night, seeing only candles flicker in the windows of the apartments for block after block after block.
Hopefully this weekend’s storm will be less dramatic. Apparently the prediction is, this won’t be as severe… http://globalnews.ca/news/1045228/looking-back-at-the-ice-storm-of-1998/
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