About 800,000 people in Ontario and Quebec were without power Wednesday after a messy mix of freezing rain and thunderstorms pummeled parts of both provinces.
Quebec's power utility said shortly after 5 p.m. that more than 676,000 of its 4.5 million customers had no power, with much of the province under a freezing rain warning.
In Montreal, more than 316,000 hydro customers had lost power, while another 171,000 people were dealing with outages in the Monteregie region, south of the city. Up to 20 millimetres of freezing rain is expected, Environment Canada said, adding that 16 millimetres of freezing rain had fallen in Montreal by 2 p.m.
In Montreal, there were numerous reports of downed trees. City police said 911 was receiving a high volume of calls on Wednesday afternoon and asked people not to call to report damage to vehicles. Transport Quebec said weather conditions forced it to close the Victoria Bridge, which connects Montreal with its southern suburbs.
The reported outages were concentrated in central Ontario, where Environment Canada issued weather warnings and forecasts of around 50 millimetres of rainfall from morning into the night.
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