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• i was living in Toronto area terrifying no power driving to work hoping the bus in front could make the hill and not sliding back into you it was so cold most furnaces couldn't be run no lights it was horrifying

• I lived through that...I was living 2 hours from Montréal back then. No electricity for weeks, by chance one neighbor had a generator and was kind enough to let us use it to

• It was very much as was described. The first day or so we thought was typical. But it just kept going. In my memory it was about 5 days

• The ice storm added 9 tons to each electric power line

• I was working in Montreal at the time and it was truly a post-apocalyptic landscape. Every outdoor surface was covered in a thick coat of ice varying rom 5 to 30 centimetres. The highway to Ottawa was littered for 60 to 70 kms with vehicles in the ditch. The high tension towers were collapsed as if a giant boot had stepped on them. I could not go anywhere for 5 days and another 3 before I could leave the city.

• I had a head on collision with a truck in a tunnel. I survived only because the truck did not have the container. It was just the cabin. It threw me 5 meters and the cops when they came, could not believe I was in that car. Just had a broken nose from the air bag.

• I was born in Ottawa, grew up in Kingston and have lived in Montreal, all places affected and mentioned in this video. In 1998 however I was living in Vancouver and so watched all of this unfold on the TV news. I remember an ice storm we had in the early 1970's in Kingston that created ice so thick over the snow on farmers fields, that you could walk on it or slide a tobaggan for almost a kilometer without stopping. In the 98 storm I remember the whole country holding its breath as it increasingly appeared that all Montreal major transmission lines were going to collapse and the city might have to be abandoned - inconceivable - but it came so close to happening. Great to see neighbours and friends and the US helping out.

• I was living in the Ottawa area. (Which is close to Montreal and was hard hit buy the storm), pregnant with my daughter. The birch trees in the yards were bent over with the weight of the ice and in the midst of all the cold and ice the power went out. Our power was not out for long, others went a long time and had to leave their homes to go to a shelter. Farmers had to take turns hand milking their cows. Ice was caked on everything making it dangerous to walk outside. Some were isolated. I kept praying that I didn’t go into labour early as ambulances and emergency vehicles were struggling to get anywhere.

• Was living there. But we had an asset: my apartment was close to the Hydro-Québec headquarters, which never went without power. But it was grim in the streets, that were without any lighting. We had to go to university like we didn't know where events were driving us.

• canada is ace