The ice storm that hit New Brunswick this week appears to have claimed two lives and injured two people.
NB Power has placed the cost of the restoration after January's ice storm at $30 million, making it the largest and most expensive in the corporation's history. On January 7, the provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec requested aid from the Canadian Forces (CF), and Operation Recuperation began on January 8. Millions … The ice storm that hit New Brunswick this week appears to have claimed two lives and injured two people.Premier Brian Gallant said Friday it is believed two people are dead from carbon monoxide poisoning and two others are suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Quebec alone, 150,000 people were without electricity as of January 28.With many roads impassable due to heavy snowfall or fallen trees, broken power lines and coated with a heavy layer of ice, emergency vehicles could hardly move. "NB Power's director of business, Bernard Roy, cautioned people to stay away from NB Power equipment. "In the Miramichi and Acadian Peninsula, this was a massive ice storm and it takes a large effort for us to go after it," he said. ""Every storm's different … every storm has its own character," he said.
"We are also thinking of the two individuals who are injured, wishing them a speedy and full recovery.
"While local states of emergency have been declared by municipalities, the provincial government has not declared a state of emergency for any area of the province.
It was the largest deployment of troops ever to serve on Canadian soil in response to a CF members from about 200 units across Canada helped provincial and municipal workers clear roads, rescue people and animals trapped by storm wreckage, evacuate the sick, shelter and feed about 100,000 people frozen out of their homes, and ensure that farmers had the generators and fuel required to keep their operations going. Many barns also collapsed under the weight of the ice, killing the animals trapped inside.Millions of trees were brought down by the weight of ice around the affected areas.Three weeks after the end of the ice storm, there were still thousands of people without electricity. "These declarations, they're being made for local reasons.
Prior to the 1998 storm, the last major ice storm to hit Montreal (1961) deposited around 30 millimetres (1.2 in) to 60 millimetres (2.4 in) of ice.
"There was an incredible buildup of ice on the trees, on poles, on our lines and in some places two inches of ice on our equipment and that severely impacts the grid in those regions," said Doucet. "He said the province is acting in concert with affected communities by implementing warming and emergency centres across New Brunswick.Bradley didn't have the official number of communities that have declared a state of emergency.Bradley also said it's still too early to tell how much the storm is costing the province.In light of the severe weather conditions in certain regions of New Brunswick, postal services were cancelled Friday in the Acadian Peninsula, Miramichi-Chatham, Saint-Louis-de-Kent, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, Harcourt, Bass River, Richibucto-Village and Alma.The post offices were also closed in those regions Friday. It takes a while for us to get out, assess the situation and move toward restoration. At the height of this crisis, Operation Recuperation involved 15,784 deployed personnel (including 3,740 Reservists) from all three CF commands: 10,550 in Quebec, 4,850 in Ontario and 384 in New Brunswick. "The government of Canada remains ready to provide assistance to ensure the province has the necessary resources to address the impacts of this disaster," stated Scott Bardsley, the press secretary for federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, in a news release following Gallant's news conference.Bardsley said the federal government is "closely monitoring the situation" in New Brunswick.
"The thoughts of New Brunswickers go out to the families, loved ones and communities of these two individuals we have lost," he said.
"Just because a piece of wire is down and looks relatively safe doesn't mean that it is," he said.
"We will not relax our efforts until every customer is reconnected. "We are not ruling out the possibility of declaring a state of emergency for a particular region of the province, but at this time prohibiting travel or ordering evacuations are not a part of our strategy of recovery," said Gallant.Gallant said the province has contacted the federal government to see if there are additional resources it can provide to the regions impacted by the storm. "With files from Vanessa Blanch, Elizabeth Fraser, Bridget Yard and Alan WhiteIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onThe ice storm that hit New Brunswick this week appears to have claimed two lives and injured two people.Resident Denis Leblanc tells CBC about the storm damage in his area.A drive through Pigeon Hill showing power lines down along the road.The northeastern New Brunswick town of Tracadie declared a state of emergency Friday after this week's major ice storm, as much of the community remained without electricity. The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Mainein the United States. It caused massive damage to trees and electrical infrastructure all over the area, leading to widespread long-term power outages.
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