Twenty years ago this week, starting on Jan. 4, 1998, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario were pelted with as much as 100 millimetres of freezing rain and ice pellets — an ice storm that lasted six days. A worker uses a snowmobile to clear fallen trees and branches in Montreal on Jan. 19, 1998. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)The ice storm was the result of a unique combination of weather systems formed over a huge swath of Ontario and Quebec. Soldiers take down an ice-covered branch in Montreal on Jan. 9, 1998, after the army moved in to help with the ice storm cleanup. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)Share your photos of the 1998 ice storm by emailing webquebec@cbc.ca or using the #cbcmtl on Instagram.

Source: CBC News January 04, 2018 09:58 UTC