[PeteB570]

What year was the major ice storm up there that took down all the high line towers runnning into one of the big cities?

Saw a show on History or National Geographic about it. After the first couple of days up there things were starting to look a little grim.

[Othniel]

Check out "The Weather," a PBS series from a few years back. The section on cold is pretty wild. At one point, the host is in a refrigerated chamber in a pair of shorts and sandals. They drop the temperture to around zero, I think. He lasts maybe 1/2 before hypothermia kicks in, and it's not pretty. Later on, there is a bit about the ice storm.

[fanfan]

What year was the major ice storm up there that took down all the high line towers runnning into one of the big cities?

January 1998. Mostly Ottawa and Montreal.

Power was out for up to 3 weeks depending on how rural your property was.

I was without power for 6 days.

[Arthur McGowan]

April 1997. Power lines down all over N. Dakota and Minnesota, too. Winds 70 MPH, temps -20F, for almost four whole days. The storm was blizzard Hannah—the eighth blizzard of the winter, each one of which set a record for severity on the dates it occurred. The Grand Forks flood and fire occurred a month later when the record snow melted quickly in early May.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

montreal and I was there for the entire debacle trying to put in a phone system. all of downtown was shut down and we couldn’t get parts flown in..huge ice sheets were falling off of highrise buildings and crashing in the street. I stayed at the Delta Hotel..

[Alberta's Child]

That was back in the 1990s -- and it covered an area that included much of Quebec, plus a big region in upstate New York, too. Some places didn't have any power for SIX WEEKS in the dead of winter.

Funny how you never heard much about it back then, eh? I guess those folks in the north country aren't into looting like they are in New Orleans, Los Angeles, etc.