East Coast Ice Storm
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We weren't hit too bad, but there are quite a few people without power around the hood. Here are some pictures from my yard this morning. how is everyone else doing? Ross, did you get hit hard?
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Here on Prince Edward Island, a few hundred miles from Tinanne, the ice storm wasn't so bad. I woke up to a thin glaze of ice over everything and it was spitting rain. The temperature was on the rise. The kids schools had a one hour delay but the buses came and took them away. When I drove to work about 8:45am the roads were clear. So it really wasn't much of a ice storm for us this year.
Last year we had a bad localized one. Several hundred power poles (old cedar ones) broke under the strain of all the ice-weighted wires. A few years ago (1998) was the one Modelhead refers to. It hit us hard but really screwed things up in Quebec where over 1000 high-tension power pylons crumpled. There's a wikipedia page about that storm here. It is reported to have killed at least 25 people.
Regards, Ross
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