Residents should prepare for a prolonged cleanup effort. "If I could tell everyone one thing, it’s to be patient. Clean-up will take several months," Friary advised.
Published Apr 2, 2025 at 5:04pm
The aftermath of a freak ice storm in Barrie this week. (Supplied)
When Mayor Alex Nuttall woke up on Sunday morning, the scale of the Barrie storm's destruction became immediately clear.
“I looked out the window and I was thinking, whoa, like there's a lot of trees down,” he recalled.
But as he stepped outside, the true extent of the damage hit him.
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