{"id":94175,"date":"2017-03-15T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=94175"},"modified":"2017-03-15T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:16:25","slug":"quebec-pounded-by-winter-storm-premier-acknowledges-need-for-better-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/15\/quebec-pounded-by-winter-storm-premier-acknowledges-need-for-better-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec pounded by winter storm, premier acknowledges need for better response"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94178\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-snow.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94178\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-snow.png\" alt=\"Heavy snow continued to fall Wednesday as Quebec emergency crews struggled to cope with a fatal winter storm that paralyzed traffic and left hundreds of motorists stranded in their cars overnight. (Photo: Gilles Douaire\/Flickr)\" width=\"508\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-snow.png 508w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Quebec-snow-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heavy snow continued to fall Wednesday as Quebec emergency crews struggled to cope with a fatal winter storm that paralyzed traffic and left hundreds of motorists stranded in their cars overnight. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/douaireg\/6476363573\/\">Gilles <\/a>Douaire\/Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL\u2014Heavy snow continued to fall Wednesday as Quebec emergency crews struggled to cope with a fatal winter storm that paralyzed traffic and left hundreds of motorists stranded in their cars overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada said southwestern, central and eastern Quebec remained under storm warnings after more than 35 centimetres of snow were dumped on Montreal by early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>One commuter, Sergio Barile, said he and his wife finally made it to their home in Montreal&#8217;s Saint-Laurent borough at 2 a.m. Wednesday after a nightmarish eight-hour commute with a toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Barile said he left his home at 6:45 p.m. to help his wife, who was stuck on the road only about two kilometres from home with the couple&#8217;s 21-month-old daughter, Layla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were one exit from the house but nothing was moving,\u201d said Barile.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were lucky both the couple&#8217;s vehicles had enough gas but the experience was very stressful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL\u2014Heavy snow continued to fall Wednesday as Quebec emergency crews struggled to cope with a fatal winter storm that paralyzed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[16687,13142],"class_list":["post-94175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-heavy-snow","tag-winter-storm","mauthors-morgan-lowrie","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}