Public utility crews are working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers Thursday after an ice storm wreaked havoc on the power grid in southern Quebec and killed at least one person. The storm cut power to more than a million customers Wednesday afternoon, and as of 7:30 p.m. "It's not at all like the ice storm of 1998 because we are in April, not in January. Tellier said the priority is to restore power in hospitals and municipal infrastructure, but the storm had caused nowhere near the damage to the electrical distribution network as the 1998 ice storm, which toppled major transmission lines. Most of those affected were in the Montreal area and the Outaouais region.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2023 20:52 UTC