Thousands of Quebecers without power after winds shake Montreal area
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MONTREAL — Tens of hundreds of Quebecers wakened this morning at midnight after almost 100-kilometre per hour wind gusts took down energy traces throughout the higher Montreal space.
Hydro-Quebec says about 120,000 shoppers misplaced energy on the peak of the occasion late Friday, however service had been restored to 65% them by early morning.
The areas that had been extra affected had been the Laurentians with 13,686 outages, adopted by the Outaouais area in western Quebec with greater than 12,300.
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The utility stated this morning that about 100 groups had been mobilized to revive energy.
Surroundings Canada says excessive southwesterly winds had been reported at a number of stations within the south of the province on Friday night, inflicting energy outages and overturned utility poles.
It reported wind gusts of 107 kilometres per hour in Terrebonne, simply north of Montreal, and 92 km/h in Montreal.
