EV building damaged by storm

A window broke and fell 20 metres from Concordia’s EV building on Guy St, crashing on the pavement during a windstorm on Sunday, Dec. 28.
Winds raced up to 100 kilometres an hour across Quebec and Ontario, destroying trees, toppling electric polls and damaging buildings.
Concordia’s director of media relations Chris Mota said leftover glass on the edges of the window frame and a bent piece of metal indicated the window broke when “something flew” into it.
The building’s structure, which has since been evaluated and is considered safe, is in no way to blame, according to Mota. No injuries were reported.
Many Montrealers were inconvenienced by the windstorm. But the scene was more drastic in other parts of Quebec and Ontario.
When eastern Ontario was hit by a second storm the next day, there were almost 260,000 power failures. Over 20,000 Hydro One customers prepared to ring in the new year without any lights or music.
Hydro-Quebec and Hydro One deployed helicopters across the vast region in order to locate the sources of the power outages faster.
The Charlevoix, Laurentians and the Outaouais regions were the most effected in Quebec. Approximately 32,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark one day after the storm. Six hundred of these were in Montreal.

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