High winds knock out power in Southern and Western Quebec
Excessive winds downed hydro poles within the higher Montreal space and far of the southern a part of the province knocking out energy to greater than 120,000 Hydro-Québec prospects Friday night time.
About 37,000 prospects remained with out energy as of seven:45 a.m., the majority of them — about 14,000 prospects — within the Laurentians.
The opposite most affected areas included Laval (4441 prospects), and the Lanaudière (4 422), Montérégie (4 077), Outaouais (4 555) and Centre-du-Québec (2181) areas, whereas greater than 1,000 prospects in each Montreal and the Jap Townships nonetheless had no energy as of Saturday morning.
In a message on its web site, Hydro-Québec thanked prospects for his or her persistence and mentioned crews are doing “all the pieces potential to revive energy as shortly as potential.”
