City workers with chainsaws, people using felled tree trunks as benches, piles of branches as tall as adults and enormous exposed tree roots — these are some sights at Montreal’s Lafontaine Park after last week’s ice storm.
Though most parks have reopened, city workers still have weeks’ worth of work on their hands to completely clean up all the debris left behind by the high winds and freezing rain that left over a million Quebecers without power and caused at least two deaths.
City officials are urging caution in parks and warning people not to venture onto woodland paths in parks like Mont-Royal.
Residential streets are also
