The Toronto ice storm was one of the many Natural disasters that were part of the North American Storm Complex. The storm originally formed in South Central United States on December 19 2013. The storm headed towards Atlantic Canada, and Northeastern United States, where the Storm finally disappeared on December 23 2013. The storm had lead to the tragic death of 27 people.
The ice storm had lasted for almost 2 days, causing 500,000 homes to lose power. The ice storm was near the time of christmas causing 115,000 people to be stranded at the airport as their flights had been cancelled due to the dangerous storm. The ice storm caused many roads to become icey, leaving many to stay at home during the storm, unable to leave at the risk of being on the unsalted roads and swerving off into a ditch. Millions of trees had fallen over, due to the heaviness from the ice. Some of the trees had benefited from glaze ice, a smooth coating of ice forming around the trees and plants from the freezing rain. This helps to relieve the unhealthy parts of a tree, like dead branches to fall down quicker. The damage cost of the disaster had been a whopping $106 million. The storm hadn’t been as terrible as the 1998 ice storm, which had to call in the military to help clean out the snowy roads, and assist those in need. …show more content…
Winters are very cold, and snowy. The summer weather is very warm, and sometimes very mildly hot. Temperatures can rise to 20CC and sometimes can even go above
The ice storm had lasted for almost 2 days, causing 500,000 homes to lose power. The ice storm was near the time of christmas causing 115,000 people to be stranded at the airport as their flights had been cancelled due to the dangerous storm. The ice storm caused many roads to become icey, leaving many to stay at home during the storm, unable to leave at the risk of being on the unsalted roads and swerving off into a ditch. Millions of trees had fallen over, due to the heaviness from the ice. Some of the trees had benefited from glaze ice, a smooth coating of ice forming around the trees and plants from the freezing rain. This helps to relieve the unhealthy parts of a tree, like dead branches to fall down quicker. The damage cost of the disaster had been a whopping $106 million. The storm hadn’t been as terrible as the 1998 ice storm, which had to call in the military to help clean out the snowy roads, and assist those in need. …show more content…
Winters are very cold, and snowy. The summer weather is very warm, and sometimes very mildly hot. Temperatures can rise to 20CC and sometimes can even go above