Image | ICE STORM north gower ryan daly horses 1998 ottawa

Caption: Ryan Daly feeds horses oats on his family's North Gower farm on Jan. 12, 1998. By that point, people in the area had been without power for a week. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Image | ice storm extension cord 1998 ottawa house clayton rubec

Caption: Clayton Rubec runs two extension cords across the street to his neighbours's houses in Ottawa after a fallen tree branch knocked out power to his house on Jan. 8, 1998. (Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press)

Image | WEATHER ice storm parliament hill ottawa 1998

Caption: An unidentified pedestrian makes her way through slush and broken tree branches near Parliament Hill on Jan. 6, 1998. (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)

Image | TIM HARPER tree branch ice storm

Caption: Tim Harper wrestles with a tree branch that fell in his front yard during the 1998 ice storm. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM pedestrian ottawa street powerlines closed 1998

Caption: A lone pedestrian crosses an Ottawa street on Jan. 10, 1998. Many streets were closed off during the ice storm because of downed power lines. (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM military convoy ottawa 1998 cfb petawawa

Caption: A military convoy on its way to Ottawa from CFB Petawawa passes a road crew working to repair downed power lines on Jan. 9, 1998. (Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM dennis parnell construction worker trees power lines 1998 ottawa osgoode

Caption: Construction line company worker Dennis Parnell helps restore power by removing trees from power lines in rural south Ottawa during the 1998 ice storm. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM corel centre armed forces 1998 ottawa

Caption: Armed Forces vehicles wait at the Corel Centre — now known as the Canadian Tire Centre — for orders to move during the 1998 ice storm. (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM steve fargo general store kingston wolfe island 1998

Caption: General store owner Steve Fargo checks his stock by lamplight on Wolfe Island near Kingston, Ont., on Jan. 11. The ice storm forced the City of Kingston to declare its first ever state of emergency. (John Lehmann/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM wolfe island kingston transmission tower

Caption: A man walks past a fallen TV transmission tower on Wolfe Island near Kingston, Ont., on Jan. 11, 1998. (John Lehmann/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM Walter Natynczyk Art Eggleton briefing metcalfe ottawa 1998

Caption: Royal Canadian Dragoons Commanding Officer Lt.-Col. Walter Natynczyk briefs the then-defence minister Art Eggleton during a visit to Metcalfe on Jan. 12, 1998. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM hydro workers saint isidore ottawa 1998

Caption: Hydro workers try to restore power to the town of Saint Isidore, Ont., on Jan. 13, 1998. The ice storm left the small town 75 kilometres east of Ottawa without power for several days. (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press)

Image | ICE STORM gabriel lafrance barn 1998 ottawa dairy farmer

Caption: Dairy farmer Gabriel Lafrance holds a sheet of ice in the storage area of his barn in Forest Park, Ont., some 60 kilometres east of Ottawa, on Jan. 15, 1998. The ice storm caused the roof of Lafrance's barn to collapse but didn't harm any of his cows. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Image | HARRIS TOUR maxville 1998 ice storm

Caption: Former Ontario premier Mike Harris talks with reporters in Maxville, Ont., two months after the January 1998 ice storm. He was in the eastern Ontario town to hand out plaques honouring those who helped out. (Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press)