Canada Blackout: Heavy Snowfall Leaves Over 150,000 Without Electricity In Quebec – 5 January 2015

More than 150,000 Canadians are left without electricity in Quebec due to the snowfall, which caused trees branches to fall, damaging power cables.

The blackouts began Sunday afternoon across the Montreal region, but conditions deteriorated in the evening, and the outages spread all over southern Quebec.

Montreal has deployed 1K snow removal vehicles / tools. Budget for this weekend's cleanup is around $20M. #cbcmtl pic.twitter.com/fwyI660kkC

— Brigitte Noël (@Brige_Noel) January 4, 2015

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