Windstorm wreaks damage in Quebec

[Ya Tzarone]

Source: CBC News

Thousands of Quebec households were still without power nearly 24 hours after gale-force winds whipped the province's south and west regions.

Hydro-Québec said about 13,000 customers, mostly in the Laurentians still didn't have power as of noon Thursday.

In Montreal, Wednesday night's windstorm blew gusts as high as 80 kilometres per hour, which felled large branches that downed power lines and damaged several parked cars.

At the peak of the windstorm Wednesday night, 125,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without power.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/06/02/windstorm-in-montreal.html

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Yes, we get bad weather up here as well. ;-)

[kestrel91316]

1. You get earthquakes on occasion, too. Don't think some of us haven't noticed.

[redwitch]

2. I remember your ice storm.

I do so love Quebec, that storm made me very sad. It was such a terrible long ordeal in the cold. My husband's friend grew up outside of Montreal on a farm. All the trees her grandfather had planted decades before were destroyed in the ice storm.

[applegrove]

3. I was in the ice storm. Yes it was sad. No it wasn't cold..just at freezing which is why the 'ice'

kept accumulating. Lots of people with trucks and chainsaws showed up from the USA to help out and make a buck.

[redwitch]

5. But some many people lost power it must have been cold!

And dark too.

[Odin2005]

4. That same storm hit Fargo on Memorial Day. 90mph winds.