On Sunday, 22 December 2013, hundreds of thousands of families in Eastern Canada and parts of the United States found themselves without electricity. A severe winter freezing rain storm had coated roads, sidewalks, trees, and power lines with up to 30 millimetres of ice.
Fallen trees and collapsed electrical lines were just a few of the hazards caused by the disastrous weather. Approximately 300 000 homes were reportedly without power in the Greater Toronto Area, and were predicted to remain without electricity for up to seven days. In fact for some, the outage would persist into the new year, even as outside temperatures dipped well below the freezing mark.
“Power was gone for three days and we had no heat,” recalls Dolat, an Ismaili senior citizen who lives with her husband Nurali in a Toronto apartment building. “We live on the 12th floor and the elevators were not working so we were stuck in the cold apartment.”
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