Montreal's REM suffers outage, 250K Hydro-Quebec customers lose power during winter storm
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More than a quarter of a million Hydro-Quebec customers were without power and Montreal's light-rail line was out of service Wednesday evening as a powerful winter storm brought strong winds and rain across the province.
More than a quarter of a million Hydro-Quebec customers were without power and Montreal's light-rail line was out of service Wednesday evening as a powerful winter storm brought strong winds and rain across the province.
Shortly after 11 p.m., the number of households without electricity reached 250,985, with the number increasing by the hour since the early evening.
Quebec's Montérégie region and the Montreal region were the hardest hit areas, with 62,000 and 45,000 customers without power, respectively.
Hydro-Quebec says the outages are "mainly caused by the branches and trees that break near the power grid and [come] into contact with it," according to a post on social media.
The post said there are crews in the field working to restore power and that the "aim is to restore service as quickly as possible. The reliability of service is our priority and we are in action to reduce outages," the post reads.
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