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Chapter One
COVERED IN ICE
n January 4, 1998, it started to rain ice. It rained for six days.
Up to 100 millimetres of freezing rain fell on eastern Ontario
Oand southern Quebec. Almost everything east of Ottawa was
coated in ice.
The freezing rain stopped on January 10. Temperatures
dropped. More than 3 million Canadians had no electricity.
Montreal’s metro stopped running. Schools closed. People could
not get to work. Water-cleaning plants lost power. The city almost
ran out of drinking water. For many people the power would be
out for weeks. People could not heat their homes.
People looked for shelter. The cleanup took weeks. Millions of
trees were broken or destroyed. At least 30,000 power line poles
The 1998 ice storm littered the ground with broken branches
and power lines.
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