One week after freezing rain began accumulating on tree branches, breaking them and leaving hundreds of thousands of Montrealers without power, some 4,000 Hydro-Québec customers still didn’t have electricity on the island.
On Tuesday, in Beaconsfield, a city in Montreal’s West Island, tree limbs lay strewn across lawns and residents who still lacked power expressed frustration with the delays.
Georges Bourelle, the mayor of Beaconsfield, surveyed the damage.
“It’s way, way too long,” he said. “Five or six days is far too long. Now we’re at the point where we need to look at the distribution model.”
Hydro-Québec says the ice storm crippled its network in some
