Pierre Emil Rocray, a tree pathologist at Montreal's tourist-attracting Mount Royal Park, says the city's going to look a lot different because of all the tree casualties. Rocray and Luana Parker, a producer at CBC Radio's This Morning take a dangerous walk in the park to assess the damage. They find a dreadful scene of fallen trees and branches. It looks like a hurricane ripped through the park.

They carry an umbrella to protect them from falling branches. One inch of ice over a tree branch strains it by forcing it to support three or four times its original weight. Wood cracks and icy branches crash onto the umbrella.

• The ice storm destroyed millions of trees.
• The damage devastated maple sugar bush farmers. Sixty-five per cent of trees in areas affected by the storm were destroyed causing syrup production to fall 15 per cent. Some lost their sugar bush permanently.

Medium: Radio
Program: This Morning
Broadcast Date: Jan. 9, 1998
Host: Avril Benoît, Reporter: Luana Parker
Guest(s): Pierre Emil Rocray
Duration: 7:24