Ontario ice storm: Hundreds of thousands still without power as system moves East

Freezing rain that coated parts of Ontario in thick layers of ice, downing branches and power lines, left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity on Sunday as the storm headed east.

More than 350,000 customers were affected by outages early Sunday afternoon, according to Hydro One, Ontario's provincial utility, and some residents said they couldn’t imagine the lights coming back any time soon.

“At the very end of our driveway, we had a hydro pole completely ripped in half because trees went down and took the wires down,” said Janelle Baker, who lives outside of Bracebridge, Ont., and lost power early Saturday morning.

“Our driveway and our road are completely impassable at this point.”
Baker said she spent Saturday night listening to the sounds of trees crashing down.

Global News Meteorologist Anthony Farnell reports.