FOG BLOG ATLANTIC NEWS LOG: ICE STORM LEAVES THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER, CAPE BRETON WORST:

Many roads in Cape Breton were made impassable by downed trees, downed power lines, and flooding as freezing rain and ice pellets swept through the province on Sunday. (Submitted by Alyssa Basker)

With several washed-out roads and widespread power outages, Cape Breton has taken the brunt of a freezing rain storm that swept through the province Saturday night and into Sunday. "It's significant damage, for sure," said Bonnie MacIsaac, deputy warden of the Municipality of the County of Inverness. "We have a lot of trees down." Several roads are washed out in the area from heavy rain and melting snow. MacIsaac said nine roads in the area were already in rough shape. "Some of these were just barely made passable in the last week, and here we are set back by this," she said.