January deep freeze cost $180M in insured damages across Western Canada

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It may be warming up this week, but it's tough to forget the extreme cold that swept across Western Canada in mid-January.In Alberta, it led to hundreds of emergency room visits for frostbite and long wait times for those who needed furnace and pipe repairs. It even put Alberta's electricity grid at high risk of rolling power outages as people cranked up the heat.It turns out that deep freeze also cost about $180 million in insured damages across Western Canada, according to the Insurance Bureau