Road conditions in affected areas were hazardous as a result of the storm, with motorists and pedest

A powerful winter storm that hit Eastern Canada cruise package Saturday night has grounded dozens of flights and left thousands of people without power, with more of the same dangerous mix of snow, rain and ice pellets expected to wreak havoc over the rest of the weekend.
This will be one of the most heaviest cruise package ice rains or freezing rains we have seen in decades, David Phillips, a climatologist with Environment Canada, told CTV's Mike Walker earlier on Saturday. So I think it's important to be respectful of it and make sure you don't do anything foolish.
That's a concern. This is the kind of precipitation -- the freezing rain, the freezing drizzle -- that actually can cling. As soon as it falls, it spreads out into a thin veneer, the hardest ice that nature can produce, Phillips said. And it can collect on wires, it's very adhesive, it's tenacious, you can't break it way … And the worry is we'll see some power outages, some branches go down. It's the loss of power that has lots of officials worried.
In Quebec, authorities say hazardous cruise package road conditions may have played a role in highway accidents that left three people dead. Up to 30 centimetres of snow mixed with ice pellets is expected over the weekend in Montreal and its surrounding areas.
Road conditions in affected areas were hazardous as a result of the storm, with motorists and pedestrians advised to "exercise caution and adjust plans accordingly," the national weather agency said.
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