Storm updates?

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Storm updates?

Builderrhys · SARNIA, ONT

Just rain in Sarnia. Almost three days of rain now and above zero degree weather. We may have skirted all of the freezing rain, Rhys.

poncho62 · ADMINISTRATOR

Power is on here....Just about an inch of crusty snow. I got finished scraping it off the driveway, came off easier than I thought it would

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

Everything covered in ice in South Etobi. So far so good with power in my area.
Neighbour was out taking pictures and heard a couple transformers blow in the distance, saw the flashes from them.

scruffre · COBOURG, ONT

power is back on here in Cobourg. The whole town of Port Hope is still out

henrys57wagon · WOODLAWN, ONT

So far just snow here, about 4-6".

oldkoot · BROCKVILLE, ONT

Power still on here, through the night got ice crystals, about 2", better than freezing rain.

scott420p · BRAMPTON, ONT

Trees are down everywhere in Brampton, I personally didn't have the power go out but alot of people around me don't have power.

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el toro · LONDON, ONT

Power on here, you must live in a PC riding. lol

Rocketman · WALLBRIDGE, ONT

Power hasn't gone out here in Wallbridge yet. we have some ice but nothing drastic so far. I have a yard full of trees and only a few twigs down so far. fingers crossed. I was in the Montreal area for Ice Storm '98 and went with out hydro for 8 days.

fatchuk · ST MARYS, ONTARIO

St.Marys Trees are covered in ice ,so far still have power, but I think as long as the winds hold off and themp rises a bit we may be O.K. but these poor old trees are heavily weighted ..keeping out toes crossed I hate to see any damage to them..we have so many over 100 trees on the property

-- Edited by fatchuk on Sunday 22nd of December 2013 10:54:54 AM

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Had to go out, just got back, all snow here, not much moving, have a total since last night now of about 12 inches on top of the 8 inches we had before this. Great weather for guys plowing driveways by the job, (instead of by the season,) roads are not good.

69SS454 · MILTON, ONT

Sat Noon...No power and none coming for a while I'm told. Got a genny running for the basics (tv, heat and internet). Got hit pretty hard with lots of trees down on the vehicles. Things are going to look a lot different after this one. Just hoping my birch tree in the front yard can hang in there. All 3 work trucks are covered in fallen limbs but it looks like the motor home is ok but won't know for sure until we can get closer. You can only see the dually in the pics but there are 2 other trucks in behind that are covered in limbs.

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-- Edited by 69SS454 on Sunday 22nd of December 2013 12:31:52 PM

Babs57 · RENFREW, ONT

Since Friday we received approx. 13-14 " of snow and now we are getting freezing rain...............what a mess , getting ready in case of power failure!!
Major ice storm !

teejay99 · BELLE RIVER, ONT

Was hoping they wouldn't be right on the ice part of the forecast ....used to live in Kitchener area for 20 years , so know how it can get . Only rain down here in the Windsor region as temps are about +1 . The 8-10 " of snow we got a week ago is gone . Hope y'all can keep the power on .

T

Sacotu · COBOURG, ONT

have 2 big trees on my property, a corkscrew willow and a popular that sustained rather extensive damage.

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v8deuce · OAKVILLE, ONT

Lots of ice this morning about an 1/2 hour to clean enough to see (all this because my son never put the car in the garage!) after church couldn't find a timies open all closed because of no power,drove a little farther no signals at intersections take your life crossing but notice a times with lites on???? went in got my food and coffee and was told they had there own generator we have power at home.

Randy

-- Edited by v8deuce on Sunday 22nd of December 2013 02:15:11 PM

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

no power in south east Oshawa, my kid has been without for more than 4 hrs now.

Grumper · WALKERTON, ONT

I just got home from my in laws in Toronto. Lots of trees down on the way home, in laws haven't had power since early this morning.

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

A friend went to MacMaster Hospital in Hamilton to pick up her Grandaughter and new baby. The power went out and she is stuck there. Can't release the kid because the compooters aren't working.
+6* out here on the Island.

GhostPost · ONTARIO

Location                   event freezing rain totals in millimetres

Trenton                             30

Toronto Pearson Airport             24.8

Vaughan                             25

Grimsby                             27.7

Orillia                             3 to 4

Niagara                             27.7

Downsview                           20

Niagara Escarpment                  7 to 8

Hamilton                            20

Barrie                              20

Brampton                            20 to 30

Cornwall                            15

Kingston                            20

Kitchener                           15 to 25

Location                   event snowfall totals in centimetres

Ottawa Airport                      18

Gatineau Airport                    12

Haliburton                          10.8

Orillia                             8

Location                   event rainfall totals in millimetres

Grimsby                             34.1

Kent bridge (near Chatham)          51

St. Thomas                          43.2

New Glasgow                         32.0

Location                   event ice pellet totals in centimetres

Cornwall                            15

Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.

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sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Thanks for the interesting post Ghost.

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Sunnybrook and TO General are out, but running on generators. Just heard the 401 has a number of pile ups here and there.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Power went out last night, and it's still out. Around 3/4 inch of ice over everything. Got the fireplace going and generator powering basics. Will be upgrading the genny to a 240 volt so that I can get the we'll pump going. Ran out of beer too.

slab · BRANT COUNTY, ONT

Power was out south of Brantford where I am for 12hrs then came on. I put the genny away and the power went off again for another hour or more. Fine here now but the trees took a beating. One of my nieghbours trees lost three big branches. Two are still caught up in the tops of the smaller trees and the other cleaned all the branches off one side of one of my evergreens. Just got internet back a few minutes ago.

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

South east Oshawa back up, my kid had no power for about 6-7 hours.

I was out earlier cleaning of the daily drivers and heard a couple of crashes that came from the back of the house.
50' evergreen in my yard lost some branches, one on the roof of the house. No damage. Big tree behind my garage in the neighbours yard lost a couple of large branches, luckily not on my garage.
Another neighbour tree has lost a very large limb, precariously hanging on the cable/phone lines. If that takes the lines down, I most likely loose internet and land line.

oldkoot · BROCKVILLE, ONT

Back in 98 we were 14 days without hydro, phone lines were down, few gas stations had generators, no debit machines working.Lost miles of hydro poles and transmission towers.

timmins57 · TIMMINS, ONT

Way up here in northern ont. ( thats way up past Barrie for you southerners) it was sunny and nice yesterday and cloudy but cool today.

Homer · BLOOMINGDALE, ONT

After 17 hrs have just got my power back on.The back yard looks like a war zone.I have lost limbs off of every tree.On an acre property if I have one square foot with no branches or limbs I am lucky.

Keeper · OSHAWA, ONT

Oshawa is/was on and off today.

Lost power at 3am or so, came back on at 8:30....for 2 minutes, stayed out until 3pm, stayed on for 1 hour.

Came back on at 7pm. So far so good.

On another note. Rogers home phone that is supposed to work during a power outage, doesn't. We will be having a chat tomorrow.

Lightspeed Mike · BELLEVILLE, ONT

I never lost power but just got the internet back up and running.
Car and truck covered in ice, driveway is a mess. All the trees are sagging. Spent most of the day trying to clean the driveway enough to be able get out. Plows went by for the first time about 6:00pm tonight.
Never run out of beer though, stocked up before the weekend.

IR Mechanik · INGERSOLL, ONT

Had the generator and jerry cans fueled and ready to go but nothing major in Ingersoll. Power stayed on here. Just heard from my Aunt in Richmond hill, power's been on and off since six pm but seems to be back of for good now.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

My poor generator has been running non stop for 14 hours. I couldn't imagine what I would have done without it. My fireplace has also been able to keep the house around 20 degrees, so I'm riding this out fairly easily. Was supposed to take my Dad to Sunnybrook in the morning but I'm sure all appoinents will be cancelled. I really feel bad for elderly people that have to go through this without heat or basic needs. It sickens me to think how reliant we've become to basic things like electricity. I can't imagine going through a real disaster like the rest of the world sees on a regular basis.

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

hemi43 wrote:
Power went out last night, and it's still out. Around 3/4 inch of ice over everything. Got the fireplace going and generator powering basics. Will be upgrading the genny to a 240 volt so that I can get the we'll pump going. Ran out of beer too.

i've got an older 6500 honda with the big plug for the pump if you need it. you would be doing me a favor using it as it just sits in the shop collecting dust since i put in the 100amp generac standby. it never let me down over the years.

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Ran out of beer too.------there goes my rental fee--lol-lol

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Wow, radio reports now state with the wind comming up this is going to create more clean up problems due to more trees breaking off onto power lines.
Bunch of hydro crews from up in this area are on their way or already there to assist in getting this sorted out.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Thanks for the offer Rick! We're managing with the small generator but I will definitely be buying one, but unfortnately every one is sold out.

el toro · LONDON, ONT

Nothing here.

DaveM · ONTARIO

Power just back on here after 44hrs. Managed OK with a small generator and the fireplace. Moving cords around from coffeemaker to fridge to furnace to kids and wifes cell phone chargers. Isn't it cute how their fingers go into hyper mode when the battery is dying.

Drove through Port Hope this morning, it is a mess there.

Grumper · WALKERTON, ONT

My in-laws still don't have power. They always host the family Christmas, guess who just showed up with 2 car loads of food, presents and booze? Christmas is at Grumpers house this year!

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Radio reports today from a hydro rep again, stated some will be out untill the weekend.
Gonna be some damned cold houses!

JPB · AYLMER, ONT

We were very lucky to be on the 'warm' side and got rain,lots of it.Even went out and bought a generator 'cause I remember the times when we did not have one! Like insurance I guess. smile

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Out here in Prince Edward County, we just got the power back on after 49 hours but we were OK. We used the generator from the motorhome to feed back through the panel giving us power through the house. We had microwave, tv, furnace, light and fridge but no water since we needed 220/240 to operate the well pump. We had barrels of rain water from the green house for washing and toilet and bottles of water for coffee. We have indeed been warm and cozy. The kids called from Toronto to say they are still having power problems but have found alternative places to keep warm (that should probably read party). I'll go in to pick them up in the morning. Everything is still covered with ice and if we get any wind tonight, we could be back to blackout. The propane for the generator is getting low in the motorhome and the nearest fill up is 45 minutes to Belleville if I can get the beast out of the snow around it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Warren

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

i'm still out but the generator is keeping the furnice and pump going so its all good so far.Hopefully on by the weekend Ed

fastchevy · NORTH BAY, ONT

I hope it gets better for all of you... no problems here in North Bay...a few more inches of snow and cold...that's about it for here

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Reports this morning state 150,000 still out around and in TO, and another 50,000 in outer areas.
Two dead from carbon monoxide, and another 15 in hospital suffering from the same.

Running generators in enclosed areas and barbecues inside,,,,, Geez people , like, where have you been?????

Heard another talk show interview with a woman and husband who are trying to keep their house warm with candles, but they can't sleep well due to worrying about fire.
Reports state there have been numerous fires. ????????????

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

Something I have been doing for years when having to use candles during a power outage.

I keep a few loose 12"x12" ceramic tiles and place 8" duct cap on top of the tile and only use short stubby candles.

Contains the wax and even if a candle did get knocked over, no where to go.

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

That would be safe 58. BUT, i can't imagine what some of these other people are using.
Did hear though a report that one person was placing their candles in the bath tub. That would work.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Murphy's Law kicked in for me. I bought an older generator last night (thanks Shag) and got home with it around 11:00 PM. My hydro came back on this morning at 7:00 am.

At least I got a better generator now with 240v.

atomsplitter · NEWCASTLE, ONT

Here's my street in Newcastle.

My house

Our Birch (die bitch, die!). No, it did not hurt the Hyundai Hemi!

The street

ME doing all the work!

-- Edited by Atomsplitter on Tuesday 24th of December 2013 03:15:36 PM

eastown · OSHAWA, ONT

Power back on here in northwest Oshawa, after 54 hours and no generator.
Just used the fireplace and wee tad of whiskey.
Took 6 hours to clean up ice off driveway, Merry Christmas!

Bob