2013年12月23日星期一

which saw people skating down streets in Kingston

Salting and sanding crews worked through the night Saturday and into Sunday in an uphill battle against a dangerous mix of snow, ice pellets and freezing rain that stretched from Niagara Falls, Ont., to the Atlantic Coast.Via Rail warned commuters to expect delays on its routes between Toronto and Montreal or Ottawa and police urged people to stay off the roads if possible. One of its trains got stuck in Oshawa due to downed power lines."Thoughts are with those without power due to the ice storm," Prime Minister Stephen Harper tweeted. "Please stay safe."The weather conditions, which saw people skating down streets in Kingston,I chose these five stocks because I believe they could offer the best investment opportunities for china tour packages under the right market conditions. Ont.These developments have been great for investors who were shareholders before these Silk road tours pushed share prices up.TripAdvisor to see if they are attractive investment candidates., were suspected to have played a role in four fatal highway crashes in Quebec and another in Ontario on the weekend.At the height of the storm, Hydro Quebec said 51,000 customers were without power, mainly in the Estrie and Monteregie regions, while some 1,500 customers in Montreal found themselves in the dark.Sherbrooke, located in the Eastern Townships,Kayak is majorly known for developing internet applications that allows its users to compare hundreds of Xinjiang China Tours at once when searching for flights, hotels and rental cars. one of the hardest hit parts of the province, suspended all public transportation services.The entire province of New Brunswick remained under a weather warning on Sunday afternoon, with heavy snow forecast for the north and freezing rain in the south. NB Power reported nearly 3,000 customers without electricity.

Much of Nova Scotia was under a freezing rain warning, while Prince Edward Island was under a warning of snow and ice pellets.In Toronto, where warming centres were set up, Mayor Rob Ford called it one of the worst storms in the city's history."My house is freezing cold. I have little kids, we might have to go to a hotel tonight. I'm not quite sure what we're going to do," Ford said Sunday."It's not good to wake up and have a freezing cold shower."Peberdy said crews would be working 10 to 12hour shifts to repair the damage, but were focusing initially on getting power back to two hospitals and an eastend watertreatment plant."We don't want the water systems in Toronto to go down, and that's why we're focusing on that," Peberdy said.So far, the storm of 2013 appeared to fall well short of the havoc wreaked 16 years ago, when more than two dozen people died.At one point in January 1998, almost 10 per cent of the country's population about three million people were without power when four days of intermittent freezing rain entombed parts of eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and western Quebec.The Canadian Forces deployed 14,000 troops to help with the devastation, and damage at the time was pegged at more than $1 billion.

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