New York. Canada During the overnight of December 1 to December 2, several areas received between across southern Ontario including London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Barrie and Toronto before the changeover to mixed precipitation and rain for most areas. Over northern Ontario, the town of Marathon received as much as while Thunder Bay received over . Ontario Provincial Police had reported over 200 accidents before Sunday afternoon alone across southern Ontario and a total of nearly 500 province-wide. Greyhound, GO and Via Rail service experienced delays of nearly one hour while several flights from Toronto's Pearson International Airport were canceled. During the overnight of December 2 to December 3, a large zone of precipitation across the Ohio Valley moved across the Great Lakes and into eastern Ontario and southern Quebec where fell over the cities of Montreal and Ottawa in 12 hours with freezing rain along the north shores of Lake Ontario. London received from the storm proper, followed by several days of unrelenting snowsqualls. The snow amounts broke records for most snow for the day of December 3. The old one was set in 1991 when about 6 inches fell over both regions. It was also the third biggest fall snowstorm in Montreal behind December 16, 2005 and November 30, 1944. For Ottawa, it was the biggest snowfall since nearly fell on February 23, 2003, but fell well short of its all-time snowfall record of set on March 2–3, 1947. In Quebec City, the received in 24 hours were 4 centimeters short of its worst in such a period, the record being the same date as Montreal's worst 24-hour snowfall, March 4, 1971. General accumulations in Quebec and northeastern Ontario were between from the Timmins region to east of Quebec City. Numerous schools were closed across western Quebec including all schools in the Gatineau area while all school transportation was cancelled across Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. OC Transpo's articulated bus fleet experienced similar problems as during the Winter Storm of December 2005 when some buses jackknifed or were stuck in the snow in many areas across the city, although the problem was less severe than in 2005. That incident however involved similar accumulations of about one foot. Numerous flights from Macdonald–Cartier International Airport and Pierre-Elliott Trudeau International Airport (133 flights) were canceled. The storm was blamed for three deaths in Quebec including two in car accidents on Quebec Route 153 near