Once the hard and cold winter is arriving, it is always interesting to think about the consequences of the ice storms we suffer worldwide and the importance of the power grid. Thanks to this article published in INMR we can realize of that by remembering one of the largest catastrophes occurred during a very hard winter in Canada.
Early in January of 1998, three consecutive masses of warm moist air coming off from the Gulf of Mexico moved ominously northward over an area extending from the southern U.S. State of Alabama to the Canadian maritime Province of Nova Scotia. In the South, this system brought with it torrential rains resulting in severe flooding. However, as the masses continued inexorably to the north their effect became even more insidious.