‘No lights, no heat. Nothing. Period’: Unprecedented snowstorm forces state of emergency in Manitoba

As an early season snow and windstorm hammered Manitoba over the weekend, Marlene Beardy’s pregnant granddaughter found herself stranded in Lake St. Martin, three hours north of Winnipeg, without heat or power and days away from giving birth.

Evacuating the northern communities proved especially challenging because the storm, which blew into Manitoba on Thursday night, knocked down thousands of trees, power poles and power lines in the province, blocking roads in places and knocking out both power and, in some areas, cell phone towers and phone connections.

Margaret Missyabit, who evacuated the Lake Manitoba Reserve over the weekend with her son and was moving from one Winnipeg hotel to another on Monday afternoon, said the ordeal has been “really frustrating and hard for people that have children, people that are sick, people that are on disability.” Crews, trucks and cranes from Saskatchewan Power Corp., Hydro One and Minnesota Power are currently on their way to assist Manitoba Hydro in getting power restored. The provincially owned utility currently has 500 personnel in the field working to bring things back to normal.

I would like to see the Green and NDP’s answer on how they will handle a REAL emergency, like this common winter storm, without oil and gas? What about earthquakes, tornado’s, floods, and any activity in our North. And no reference to future vaporware as a panacea.

Carbon free living

As usual, NP - useless. You are a day late. Get with the program. Try AP.

Wish we can give this treatment to everyone who is against fossil fuels.

Shoulda bought that generator...

If they hag this there would be no problem with heat or power for anyone.

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