A deadly storm that swept across southern Ontario and Quebec on the weekend has caused massive damage to large swaths of the electrical grid, and utility companies warned it would take several days to restore power for hundreds of thousands of customers.
In Brampton, Ont., Ryan Weichel said he only got an alert about the storm after it was already in full force. One of the fatalities occurred in his city – a woman was hit by a tree while she was out on a walk. “The dust on the roads was whipping up a sand storm and the family across from us, their tent was blown flat and all their stuff was soaked,” Ballantyne said. “The park was sold out this weekend and now there are empty sites everywhere.”
While alerts are an important part of safety during natural disasters, Mr. Cheng reminded people to stay vigilant when inclement weather is forecasted. Tim Trytten, who was formerly the Alberta government’s team leader on alerting, said his province would have followed a similar protocol of progressively alerting communities only as the storm moves closer to them.“There’s always a lot of emotion attached to an event, especially one as severe as this, and you have to look at what did people know, when did they know it and what did they do about it.
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