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During the Great Ice Storm Canada was unprepared to manage many of the problems occurring during and after the Ice Storm. The Great Ice Storm occurred on January 5th 1998 and ended on the 10th. For more than 80 hours 120 mm of steady freezing rain and drizzle fell over several thousand square miles of land and accumulated on everything it landed such as branches and metal causing them to bend or break. Parts of Eastern Canada were affected such as Eastern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as well as parts of North Eastern America (New York and Maine). Temperatures reached below 0 and with it came high wind pressures. Thousands of people suffered from hypothermia as well as a shortage of foods due to power outages resulting in no heat in homes. There had been 25 deaths of hypothermia and over 600 000 people in parts of...

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