Widespread power outages persist, while downed power lines, fallen power poles and a huge number of downed trees are all covered in thick ice.

Residents in the most severely affected areas are being encouraged not to travel unless necessary and to watch for downed wires and work crews.

Freezing rain that coated parts of Ontario in thick layers of ice, downing branches and power lines, left hundreds of thousands of residents without electricity on Sunday as the storm headed east. More than 400,