700 customers in Ottawa and Gatineau remain without power following Friday's storm
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Approximately 700 homes and businesses in Ottawa and Ottawa remained without power Sunday afternoon, as the cleanup continues from Friday's severe thunderstorm that hit the region.
Approximately 700 homes and businesses in Ottawa and Ottawa remained without power Sunday afternoon, as the cleanup continues from Friday's severe thunderstorm that hit the region.
The storm with tennis ball-sized hail, wind gusts up to 70 km/h and heavy rain damaged trees and hydro infrastructure across the region.
Hydro Ottawa says approximately 220 customers are without electricity on Sunday, mainly in the McKellar Heights and City View neighbourhoods.
"We are treating this as a multi-day restoration event throughout the weekend with efforts now focused on restoring power to small areas and individual outages," the utility said on its website.
The utility initially reported more than 13,000 customers in Ottawa were without power Friday night.
Hydro Quebec reported 448 customers were still without power Sunday afternoon, down from 1,500 customers this morning.
City of Ottawa officials say Forestry Staff have been "busy" this weekend clearing debris, and debris cleanup will begin on Monday.
