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Montréal’s Décarie Expressway and stretches of Montreal highways were closed due to heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon.
No ‘major collision,’ according to Quebec provincial police
Heavy rain closed the Décarie Expressway on Wednesday afternoon, as remnants of Hurricane Beryl are being felt across Montreal and southern Quebec.
Here are the highways currently affected by the rain, according to Transports Québec:
- Highway 13 North between Hickmore Street and Highway 520
- Highway 15 North between Côte-St-Luc Road and Highway 40
More than 9,000 Hydro-Québec customers in the Montreal and Montérégie regions were without power as of 4:30 p.m.
A spokesperson for the public utility says it voluntarily interrupted service for those customers at the request of provincial security officials due to the heavy rain, stressing that the outages are not due to equipment failure.
The Sûreté du Québec says it is monitoring the situation and that there’s no “major collision” at the moment.
On July 14,1987, 102.2 mm of rain drenched the city, flooding the city’s arterial highway. The improvements made to the expressway since have certainly helped, but they’re not enough to prevent significant flooding when the city is hit by major storms.