With a major snowstorm continuing to batter regions across Quebec, provincial police say there have been many accidents, including pileups involving dozens of vehicles that forced Transports Québec to close some highways on Montreal's South Shore. Quebec provincial police say there have been two separate vehicle pileups on Highway 20, heading east, on the South Shore of Montreal. Jackie Rosenhek and her children, Morgan and Ophelia, took advantage of the snow day to go sledding in a Montreal park. "It's kind of nice to not have to manage everything all at once and just be like — 'yeah, it's a snow day,'" she said. Storm surge in the Gaspé, North Shore regionsIn addition to the snow, coastal areas in northeastern Quebec were also told to brace for a storm surge from the ocean.

Source: CBC News January 17, 2022 21:07 UTC