🧊 New on my blog this week – An Ice Storm Retrospective: The Canadian Winter of 2023 goes out with a bang.

https://heliomass.com/posts/102-an-ice-storm-retrospective/

#Montreal #Quebec #Canada #qcstorm #icestorm #weather #extremeweather

🧊 New on my blog this week – An Ice Storm Retrospective: The Canadian Winter of 2023 goes out with a bang.

https://heliomass.com/posts/102-an-ice-storm-retrospective/

#Montreal #Quebec #Canada #qcstorm #icestorm #weather #extremeweather

New dark metal band logo just dropped #montreal #IceStorm

From an #icestorm last week and almost a complete blackout to 25C today 🌞 🌷.

#Montreal never fails to entertain us 😀

Thursday morning during the #montreal #icestorm power failure, I went out to get gas for the generator (end of snowblower season and my cans were low).

Lines at the stations were very long. Most of them were closed. I waited ~30 mins anyway.

Guy tries to cut in line ahead of me. He’s panicking because his tank is empty nearly. I eventually tell him I’ll let him have the contents of my 5L can after I fill it, but bring it back so I can refill before I leave.

2) Some more #IceStorm photos from #Montreal #Quebec showing the devastation of trees. 🌳🌳🌳

#wildbikes shrug off #montreal 's #icestorm

The situation looks better than Thursday

#Montreal #PowerOutage #Quebec #icestorm

We had a pretty bad #icestorm here in Montreal recently - a huge chunk of the city lost power. We were lucky, and only lost power for 44, and had a generator to keep our snakes warm and our fridge/freezer cold - but despite all of the damage and frustration - I managed to get some pretty good #macro #photo s of #ice on some of the #crocus #flowers that were just about to open up in my #garden

Ran some errands and there are lots of whole trees that have been uprooted by the combo of ice and wind, though it's a lovely brisk sunny day and there are lots of bulbs poking up too. #Montreal #IceStorm #ClimateChangeDiaries

🚨 A reminder to never light a BBQ indoors to cook nor have a generator running in a closed garage. Everything should be outside away from doors and windows. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a real issue and it can kill you. Do not leave the generator inside even with the garage open, CO doesn’t air out like bad smoke. #Montreal #icestorm #safety #cooking

The ice and broken tree photos are impressive but I think this might be my best photo of the power outage.

#montreal #icestorm

I took this photo yesterday at sunset. My iPhone doesn’t do it justice but I loved the wavy wispy pink clouds.

All the ice melted away after the storm from two days ago but it was very windy again last night. Lots of trees lost branches (some were very large) in the neighbourhood this week.
I saw a couple of uprooted trees as well but thankfully no crushed rooftops or cars that I could see.
A few areas in Ottawa and I think also in Montréal lost power and I’m not sure they have it back yet. It’s still below freezing at night. My area was fortunate.

Hopefully no injuries or worse 🤞

#IceStorm

Power restored (for us) after 42 hour outage. 👍👍

#montreal #icestorm

Caught some of the melting ice on my bike cam. Bit shaky because it was out of the corner of my eye.

Big chunks from the #icestorm in #Ottawa !

We had our hydro (electric power) restored in my home after a few hours of outage at the start of the #Montreal #IceStorm, and we think it's because we're on the same circuit as the hospital next door.

Still no wired internet, but the cell towers seem to be holding up better today.

We're pretty lucky to be in an island of hydro amidst a sea of outages.

@TechConnectify update: despite the showers and using the water as we please before it gets cold, the water is still warm enough to take the chill out of hand washing, after 40 hours without power.

#montreal #icestorm

We have power back! #Montreal #QCStorm #IceStorm

#Food #safety during Quebec's power failure: what to keep, what to throw away | CTV News
#montreal #poweroutage #icestorm #quebec

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/food-safety-during-a-power-outage-what-to-keep-what-to-throw-away-1.6345788

No progress on power this morning, and still no ETA from Hydro. Looking at the map there are cells around us with more people affected than us, so I'm imagining we're still in for a wait as they prioritise the more impactful outages. Thankfully we have large windows facing the sun so we're able to warm up the apartment for now. Also we have some camping gear so we can cook again. It's not all bad! #QCStorm #IceStorm #Montreal