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Mat Rane do you remember the freeze of '98?

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Of course. It was eerie. I was walking (more like sliding) back and forth between my house and my GF's a mile away. In the middle of the icy, deserted streets. Complete silence in a big city is spooky as fok.

Power was out for less than a day for us. Missed about a week of college. NBD.
 
I clearly remember seeing it on the news with pics like this!

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Ice storms are common on the east coast of the US and Canada. The infrastructure is generally prepared for the havoc these storms can wreak, but winter 1998 brought with it the most crippling ice storm in living memory.

By 5 January 1998 it was clear eastern North America was in for a cold spell. An area of unusually high pressure was sitting over the Atlantic, trapping several weather systems on the land. Arctic air was being held at the surface in this area, while a front of low pressure was feeding it with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The result was 12.7 centimetres (five inches) of freezing rain that fell over 80 hours, crystallising on anything it touched, taking down power lines, felling trees and making roads impassable everywhere. One of the worst-hit cities was Montral in Qubec.


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Figures of the Ice Storm

28 ppl died, many from hypothermia
945 people were injured
Over 4 million people in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick lost power
About 600,000 people had to leave their homes
130 power transmission towers were destroyed and more than 30,000 utility poles fell
Millions of trees fell, and more continued to break and fall for the rest of the winter
Estimated cost of the ice storm was $5,410,184,000
Much of the sugar bush used by Quebec maple syrup producers was permanently destroyed. It was estimated that it would take 30 to 40 years before syrup production could return to normal.
 
Matty
Of course. It was eerie. I was walking (more like sliding) back and forth between my house and my GF's a mile away. In the middle of the icy, deserted streets. Complete silence in a big city is spooky as fok.

Power was out for less than a day for us. Missed about a week of college. NBD.
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Sure, you've given her a ring, taken her on trips and planted your seed in her, but does she know you once risked serious frost bite and traveled a mile or more in Canada's worst ever storm for another womans va jay jay?

Matty she may not post here but she browses, you might wanna edit before your time runs out.
 
wal66
Are you hurt cause Juror directed the thread at Matty and not another or all Canadians? Is that why you didn't allow Matty to be the first to reply?

I always forget to include Pucky in Canadian topics or remember him when listing Canadian posters.
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Wal, the storm was based in Eastern Ontario and Quebec, it didn't affect me, I was in Toronto.

I drove through the area a week after the storm and it was quite impressive.



Wal, what the fuck are you talking aboot?
 
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