Ice Storm 1998: Immersion in the Black and the Cold Ice Storm 1998: Immersion in the Black and the Cold Musée du Haut-Richelieu
Everything began On a nice day in January The freezing rain started Goodbye to electricity. The plough didn’t come The phone didn’t ring No garbage pick-up What a […]
All the staff were ice storm victims themselves. The personnel were all living in the same environment, the infamous triangle. So they went to work, but at the […]
The ultimate goal was to make sure that citizens didn’t get sick or risk their lives, to make sure their basic needs were being met. For example, there […]
…It wasn’t rebuilt in exactly the same way. We rebuilt it more solidly. The objective was—taking account of the costs and the potential impact on the general public […]
We spent three weeks like that. Three weeks. When the electricity came back on, which it eventually did, everybody went crazy in the streets. 22 days without power. […]
The first week was the hardest because adjustments had to be made and made quickly, which required a lot of logistics and simultaneous actions by distinct entities that […]
It was pitch black. Everyone was keeping an eye on their house and especially their generator. We were afraid. It was the season of generators, everyone was obsessed […]
Around 3:30, the sump pump alarm went off. I said, “Come quickly, Roger, it’s the sump pump alarm!” We ran down to the basement. My son’s bedroom was […]
At the time, we were having discussions with the Red Cross and other organizations to send us cots, mattresses and pillows, but nothing had arrived yet. So, when […]
Radio has always been viewed, and it’s even in our broadcasting laws, as the last means of communication. It is well known that, if a major disaster occurs […]
It was panic, I tell you. We were starting to get a very bad feeling about things. You were sure that, the next morning, you would wake up […]
It was if everyone got a little taste of what solidarity was—without solidarity, the region would not have survived. Everyone had to chip in and do their part. […]
