The morning after: 200,000 Hydro-Quebec customers remain powerless
CTV
More than 200,000 Hydro-Quebec customers remain without electricity the morning after a powerful storm swept through parts of the province.
More than 200,000 Hydro-Quebec customers remain without electricity the morning after a powerful storm pummelled the province's southwest.
Most (77,000) of those customers were in Montreal as of 6:30 a.m. Friday, with 273 interruptions to Hydro-Quebec's network. The West Island, South Shore and the southwest portion of Montreal remain the hardest hit.
Outages are also significant in Quebec's Montérégie (70,000) and Lanaudière (32,000) regions.
Thursday's storm caused flash flooding in Montreal's underpasses and metro stations, and a tornado touched down at the Mirabel airport, about 50 kilometres northwest of the island.
Over 500,000 customers lost electricity at the height of the outages on Thursday.
Hydro-Quebec confirmed Friday that the current outages are connected entirely to the storm and are no longer linked to the James Bay area forest fires, as was the case Thursday afternoon.
