Roughly 120,000 customers in Ontario were also affected
Hydro-Québec said crews worked throughout the night and 1,000 workers were in the field to restore power as quickly as possible, although there was no specific timeline. Some customers could be without power into the weekend and the public utility further warned that “the weather event is not over, new outages can still occur.”
“Montreal is devastated right now,” said Pierre Fitzgibbon, Quebec’s minister of Economy and the Metropolis, during a news conference Thursday. He said, however, that there was no breakage in Hydro-Québec’s main transmission network. In Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, streets were blocked by large fallen branches and people lined up at coffee shops where only cash was accepted, as businesses also faced power outages. Large green spaces like Laurier Park looked like crystallized battlefields, with virtually every tree sustaining heavy damage, their limbs still covered in melting ice.
He said the city’s 311 phone line received 10,000 calls on Wednesday, and reminded citizens to call only if necessary, for example if a tree is blocking a street.
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