Thousands of Canadians woke up in the dark on Christmas Day as power outages caused by ferocious winter conditions persisted across Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
A state of emergency continued in southern Ontario’s Niagara Region as crews grappled with impassable roads and wildly blowing snow.
Phil Lambert said his community of Port Colborne, Ont., was a sea of abandoned cars Sunday. He and his daughter, Gracyn Burse, said they were heading into their second straight day without power, and they didn’t anticipate it being restored until Monday.
“We borrowed a generator, but it’s only capable of keeping a little heater running for the whole house,” Burse said in an interview. “Our animals are freezing, though. We have two parrots, a budgie and a bearded dragon that needs heat.”…