Snow and freezing rain return to parts of Ontario; more power outages possible [Video]

Ontario communities hit hard by a weekend ice storm braced for another round of gusty winds and freezing rain on Wednesday as a massive spring storm descended on Central Canada.

More than 192,000 Ontario homes and businesses were in the dark as the storm moved across parts of the province, threatening to slow recovery efforts, expand power outages and further damage weakened trees.

Britany Burnside, who was without grid power from early Saturday until Tuesday morning, was on her way to Costco Wednesday to stock up on essentials in anticipation of the storm.

“We’re going to go stock up on water and soup, because that was one of the things we were lacking after a couple of days,” said Burnside, who lives in a small community near Georgian Bay.

A short supply of fuel and food in some hard-hit communities around Ontario’s cottage country prompted police to tell travellers to …