Twenty two years ago, Montréal was recovering after the worst natural disaster the province have experienced, ever. The ice storm that lasted almost a week long, and left 100 millimeters of icy rain behind (more than double the average total of icy precipitations for a whole year) paralyzed Montréal and many other cities around.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity for weeks (some for over a month), and the damage to power lines, buildings, trees and others rounded around 5 billion dollars.
Here are just a couple of pictures, to give you an idea… (Borrowed from the Internets)
Pylons used for electric lines just couldn’t support the ice’s weight…
Series of those just fell like dominos…
Little walk in a Montréal neighbourhood after the ice storm…
A couple of days back, the weather people started announcing a major ice storm for last night. TV news recommended that we got ready, not comparing the storm that was coming to 1998’s… But still.
Just in case, I made sure that both Chéri and my cellphones and tablets were fully charged, we changed the flashlight’s batteries, took out extra candles, and we went to bed expecting to wake up in an electricity-less home.
And this morning,
Nothing out of the ordinary. It was almost disappointing. I think weather people just don’t want to be blamed for unexpected storms anymore. They’ll get us on our toes for any sign that a storm might maybe somehow eventually be on its way.
Anyway… We survived, and all in all, that’s a good thing, right?
Cyranny's Cove 
Better safe than sorry is all I can say to this 😊🙋♀️🐝
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I totally agree, Bee. And although we always get prepared, just in case, it is a great relief to see that these weather people were wrong (again) 😉
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Weather forecasting, the only job in the world where you can be wrong 90% of the time and still get a paycheck. 😉
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Oh my, Doug, this made me laugh out loud! You are absolutely right! And one of the only jobs where the public in general are happy when you miss the bulleye! 😛
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I find it good to be prepared Cyranny, then you are ready, when the storm comes.
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You’re absolutely right… Next time, they might be right and we’ll be glad we did get prepared 🙂
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The Weather Channel has got their game face on for every little storm, big or small.
But, I always can gauge the weather by how my back and knees are usually feeling better than they predict. LOL!
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Hahahahaha, we have our own weather trick… Freja usually goes crazy(ier) just before a storm, and I must say, she was quite quiet yesterday. I should trust her more 😉
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LOL! They always know better than we do. 😉
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The other day the forecast read it’s gonna be thunderstorm wil hail. But it ended up being a simple cloudy day. There was rain after 4-5 days, but simple one. No hail 😂
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Hahahahahaha I can see that this problem is pretty worldwide. I wonder what kind of classes weather people get taught? ”Make a good guess” ”Keep your best poker face”?
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Hahahaha.. yeah! They just want to keep you on your toes. And then there are times when weather seems all cool on the forecast but in reality it might change all of a sudden 😛
They need to go back to college and study in classes instead of bunking them 😀
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I remember that horrible ice storm years ago. I think it’s listed as one of Canada’s worst disasters. I’m glad this time it was a false alarm.
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