A storm system over Quebec on Saturday has led to flooding on the island of Montreal, making getting around hazardous in some areas.<\/p>\n
Montreal police spokesperson Joany Charland said several units were dispatched to the borough of Pierrefonds, in the West Island, to assist local officials.<\/p>\n
Several streets have been cordoned off and officers are on site to ensure no one is stuck in flood waters and in need of assistance.<\/p>\n
Charland said motorists should avoid Pierrefonds Boulevard and surrounding areas, but the situation is in flux.<\/p>\n
As of 6:30 p.m, Charland said there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n
Transports Quebec for its part is warning that exits 52 and 55 on Highway 40, in the West Island are closed due to flooding.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the flooding isn’t just affecting city streets, with several homeowners reporting flooded basements and power outages.<\/p>\n
According to Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec, more than 18,000 clients on the island of Montreal were without power as of 7 p.m..<\/p>\n
The weather system is also affecting Montreal’s Trudeau airport.<\/p>\n
In a publication on X, airport officials said thunderstorms and severe weather conditions in the metropolitan area were impacting flight schedules, ground operations and baggage delivery. <\/p>\n
“Passengers with flights scheduled to depart from YUL are advised to check their flight schedule before heading to the airport,” the post reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A storm system over Quebec on Saturday has led to flooding on the island of Montreal, making getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,268407,239979,268404,2338,233606,202272,268406,268405,123403,242644],"class_list":["post-750721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charland","tag-island-of-montreal","tag-joany-charland","tag-montreal","tag-pierrefonds","tag-police-spokesperson","tag-storm-system","tag-transports-quebec","tag-weather-system","tag-west-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}