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Strong Winds Cut Electricity to Hundreds of Thousands of Quebec Homes
Hydro-Québec deployed over 1,100 workers to restore power after wind gusts up to 120 km/h caused outages affecting 315,000 customers across multiple Quebec regions.
- A storm system that began Monday evening caused outages peaking at more than 310,000 Hydro‑Québec customers in Quebec as winds peaked around 8 a.m.
- Strong gusts of wind caused vegetation to contact the Hydro‑Québec distribution network, leading to outages in Quebec, with gusts reaching up to 120 km/h.
- At 8:00 a.m., region-by-region data showed Montreal 39,732, Montérégie 76,778, Laval 13,884, and Laurentians 34,191 outages after climbing from more than 70,000 at 5:30 a.m. to over 200,000 by 7 a.m.
- Hydro‑Québec deployed more than 1,100 workers to about 1,400 repair sites, and Bouchard said, 'It's very likely that not everybody will be back on the grid today.'
- Hydro One reported about 12,000 customers without power in eastern Ontario and about 6,300 in Ottawa, urging, 'We encourage customers to continue to prepare for an extended outage,' while Montreal's Ecomuseum Zoo postponed a bear emergence event.
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Strong winds leave thousands without power in Central Canada, Maritimes
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·Toronto, Canada
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Nearly 165,000 Quebec homes are without electricity on Tuesday due to the breakdowns caused by strong winds on the Hydro-Québec network.
·Montreal, Canada
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Montérégie is the most affected region, with more than 55,000 private subscribers.
·Montreal, Canada
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81,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power due to strong winds
As Quebec is swept by a cold front that is causing temperatures to plummet, strong winds are causing numerous power outages in almost every region of the province. Around 5:30 a.m., more than 70,000 Hydro-Québec customers were without power — a number that had climbed rapidly during the previous hour. By 10 a.m., approximately 315,000 […]
·Toronto, Canada
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