Thousands of Quebecers still in the dark after powerful winter storm
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“Our teams will remain on the ground until each household is reconnected,” Hydro-Québec said. “Given the considerable number of places where it is necessary to intervene, the work will clearly take longer in many cases.” The messy cocktail of powerful winds, snow and ice left than 350,000 in the dark by late Friday afternoon. Aside from power outages, the winter storm closed schools, prompted road collisions and wreaked havoc on travel plans in the province.
After cancelling all Christmas Day trains on its Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes, Via Rail tweeted Sunday evening that it was also cancelling all Boxing Day trains on the corridors due to the ongoing complications.
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