About 80,000 without power as ice storm hits parts of Ontario [Video]

Tens of thousands of Ontarians went without power on Saturday as an ice storm pummeled parts of the province and threatened to hit even more .

A map from Hydro One, the provincial utility, showed more than 80,000 customers were in the dark Saturday afternoon because of outages concentrated in cottage country, from Tobermory and Gravenhurst to Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes.

The outages came after Environment Canada issued freezing rain warnings for swaths of Ontario and Quebec, starting on the northwestern shore of Lake Huron, extending as far south as Burlington, Ont., and as far east as Lac Megantic, Que.

Hydro One said crews were out in force to turn the lights back on.

By Saturday afternoon, people had started sharing images on social media of trees coated in ice and downed power lines.

Environment Canada was only predicting up to four millimetres of ice build-up in Toronto, but in Orillia the …