Ross said the TTC is considering storing subways in tunnels overnight instead of outdoor yards to avoid possible freezing of vehicles that could cause delays for Monday’s commute.

Clint Stibbe said luckily there have not been many collisions in the city today. “Ice accumulations of this magnitude combined with gusty northeast winds of 70 km/h will likely result in power outages due to fallen tree limbs and power lines” the advisory read. About 40 per cent of all arrivals and departures were cancelled at Pearson International Airport Sunday, with hundreds of arriving and departing flights scrapped or severely delayed .
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There are currently 60 forestry crews responding to fallen or damaged tree calls, the city said on Monday.Residents called for a number of reasons, including hydro outages, low heat, or no heat bylaw enforcement questions and the status of recreation programs and classes.Toronto Fire Services were on the run as well, with trucks responding to 1,330 emergency incidents around the city.This weekend's storm has caused several days of delays at Pearson International Airport, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled.On Monday, 139 arriving flights and nearly 100 departing flights were cancelled, with 11 arriving flights already cancelled Tuesday.

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“Everywhere I’m looking right now across southwestern and south central Ontario, they are going to be dealing with this so I don’t think anyone should be on the roads today if they can avoid it,” Schmidt said.

read After a weekend storm brought the city to its knees with freezing rain pellets and gusting winds causing hundreds of collisions and power outtages, Toronto … © 2018 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. Major power outages around Toronto, GTA in wake of ice storm She said crews have bene working to restore outages as quickly and safely as possible. We’re keeping a very close eye on that.”

Provincial power utility Hydro One said its crews were working to reconnect more than 100,000 customers affected by nearly 670 outages, while Toronto Hydro said the number of customers in the dark had shrunk to about 8,000 from about 40,000.Hydro One said in a statement released Sunday confirming that over 350 resources staff (line maintainers, foresters, support staff and technicians) had been mobilized across southern Ontario and about 500 had been placed on standby province-wide, in preparation for the storm.“Crews have been working around the clock to restore power to our customers. ... such an intense ice storm … TTC spokesperson Brad Ross said the transit agency is working to make sure streetcar service runs as smoothly as possible by placing anti-icing agent on overhead wires and switches and “strategically” placing maintenance crews in areas around the city to assist any TTC vehicles that become stuck.

“If you plow all of that slush and all of that frozen ice pellets on to the side of the road, it dramatically increases the chances that we will have a real flooding problem if we get heavy rains later on,” he said at the city's Office of Emergency Management on Sunday.

“It’s not something we want to do unless we have to, but we also don’t want trains under water,” Aikins said.

He urged drivers to reduce their speed if they have to be on the roads today. The inclement weather also prompted a number of post-secondary schools, including Humber College, Ryerson University, Centennial College, Sheridan College, the University of Toronto Mississauga, the University of Guelph and York University, to close and postpone exams on Saturday. While a low of 0 C is expected overnight, the temperature is expected to rise to a high of around 9 C Monday.A man shovels his sidewalk during a spring storm in Toronto on Saturday, April 14, 2018. Commuters have to find other ways around.



Toronto Hydro said late Sunday that approximately 38, 500 of its customers were without power.













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Service on the 511 Bathurst streetcar line was also diverting along Spadina because of frozen overhead wires on Bathurst Street.

I know there probably will be some more today.”

The storm is now making its way east. While the freezing rain transitioned to normal rain Sunday night, the precipitation is expected to continue overnight, raising concerns about possible flooding as the new rain adds to the melting ice. Now that the worst is over, here's a look at the April ice storm by the numbers.Toronto sustained a thrashing during the weekend's extreme weather.From Saturday morning to 2 p.m. Monday, the city was pummelled by 18 hours of falling ice pellets, six hours of freezing rain and 10 hours of rain, according to a city news release on Monday.The precipitation added up to between seven to 12 centimetres of ice pellets, with slightly more than 79 millimetres of rain recorded at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.




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