About 76 per cent of homes in Quebec back on the grid after powerful weekend storm

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About 120,000 customers were still without power on Tuesday with the hardest-hit areas including Laurentians, where 69,495 customers were off the electricity grid, along with the Outaouais and Lanaudiere regions

Thousands of Quebecers were still in the dark on Tuesday after a powerful weekend storm that hit Quebec and Ontario killed at least 10 people and left a trail of damage across large swaths of both provinces.

“Service to more than 76 per cent of affected customers has been restored so far and work continues with 700 teams on the ground,” Hydro-Quebec said. “We are used to seeing branches, pieces of trees, but right now it’s trunks of 50, 60 centimetres,” Tellier said in an interview, adding that the debris left from the storm is making it hard to access and restore power in certain areas.

In Gatineau, where a woman died Saturday after the boat she was in capsized on the Ottawa River, officials were preparing on Tuesday for potential flooding. Gatineau Mayor France Belisle told a news conference that water levels have risen rapidly in the city due to melting snow and recent heavy rainfall.

 

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