ice storm

noun, a specific storm of freezing rain that occurred in Eastern Ontario in January, 1998

“That was the biggest catastrophe that ever happened that I can recall on Wolfe Island, the ice storm.”

“The ice storm in ’98, we had the wood stove to keep us warm. We had warm meals.”

“I’ll tell you the best thing that ever, worst and best thing, was the ice storm, and you can remember the ice storm.”

“Yeah, time of the ice storm, well, we didn’t have a big generator then.”

“They still had the little building out back, and they used that when the ice storm was on, and it was just incredible.”

We had a big ice storm here in ’98. The power was out for eleven days.”

“We got the ice storm. The power was out for 10, 11 days. But I had this big generator.”

“Hydro and telephone guys, they came from New York, Toronto. They came from all around the area, and I think they just took turns going up and around, ’cause it went from here right up the East Coast that they had this storm. But it quit in Napanee. That’s just 20 miles west. That’s where, you know, the ice storm ended.”

“So then we have an ice storm. About ’98 we have an ice storm. So I needed a new television aerial. I didn’t have the satellite dish then, but I needed a new television aerial.”

“We had a storm that started in Montreal. North met South weather conditions at The St. Lawrence Seaway. It really looked like a war zone. I totally think it was The St. Lawrence Seaway that did that. So that was the big ice storm of ’98.”

“The kids did the newspaper the next day. Well, I mean they had nothing else to do, right? We could get to the lane, so we drove them to the Village, and everybody got their papers. So that was kind of fun. But oh, even the branches, it really looked like a war zone … So that was the big ice storm of ’98.”

“It was kind of funny because we had a couple in the ice storm, and they were both in their late nineties, Tom and Sarah, and my brother… he went down to see that they were alright, and he was going to get some generators and stuff like that, and Tom had already gone out and taken the battery out of his car and a headlight that he had, and so he’d wired the battery with the headlight. So they had lights in the house, and they had an old wood cookstove that they cooked on most of the time anyway, and they were nice and cozy living in the kitchen.”