As of tonight according to Toronto Hydro there are a little less than 200,000 people without power since Saturday night. The peak was Saturday night - Sunday morning, where transformers were blowing up everywhere. Here's some photos I captured.
a bar left their tables out - this is the result
You had a difficult time putting away garbage because the doors were frozen
Tree branches that survived had a unique combination of freezing, melting, and freezing within a very short time period
Tree branches that did not survive blocked sidewalks, roads, and destroyed power
Need to use a fire hydrant? You'll first have to melt the hydrant.
You skated everywhere you went because the city's salt trucks (and there are many of them) were unable to keep up with the constant freezing going on in the roads and sidewalks. How constant? At this point, my camera started growing a layer of ice itself shown in the top right corner
Some businesses had a hard time opening today.
The sheer weight of ice on the trees was clearly dragging them down
Who wants to play Warchess III: Frozen Throne???
But of course even in Rosedale, the 2nd richest part of the city, there's still fires going on.
Here's a tree that fell around the dumpster area of my store's parking lot
and we CAN'T forget the street signs..
On a public transit bus at night going through apartment complexes... not a light to be seen in the distance
The only lights are cars and emergency lights
If you look closely, both photos are taken at intersections.
in Wasaga Beach, the ice was a little more untouched
a bar left their tables out - this is the result
You had a difficult time putting away garbage because the doors were frozen
Tree branches that survived had a unique combination of freezing, melting, and freezing within a very short time period
Tree branches that did not survive blocked sidewalks, roads, and destroyed power
Need to use a fire hydrant? You'll first have to melt the hydrant.
You skated everywhere you went because the city's salt trucks (and there are many of them) were unable to keep up with the constant freezing going on in the roads and sidewalks. How constant? At this point, my camera started growing a layer of ice itself shown in the top right corner
Some businesses had a hard time opening today.
The sheer weight of ice on the trees was clearly dragging them down
Who wants to play Warchess III: Frozen Throne???
But of course even in Rosedale, the 2nd richest part of the city, there's still fires going on.
Here's a tree that fell around the dumpster area of my store's parking lot
and we CAN'T forget the street signs..
On a public transit bus at night going through apartment complexes... not a light to be seen in the distance
The only lights are cars and emergency lights
If you look closely, both photos are taken at intersections.
in Wasaga Beach, the ice was a little more untouched
- Tosh 2014
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