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Pedestrians walk by icicles hanging from a roadsign on Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa, Canada, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1998. Nearly a half-million Quebec households were without power today after a paralyzing ice storm hit the province. More than 2,000 employees from Hydro-Quebec, the provincial power company, were working around the clock to restore electricity cut off Tuesday when ice-laden branches knocked out power lines. Almost 700,000 households had been without power before the repair crews started work. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson/CP)