Thousands without power in western Manitoba caused by spring snow storm
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As snow continues to fall throughout Manitoba, the western part of the province is dealing with power outages, which at one point was impacting more than 6,000 people.
As snow continues to fall throughout Manitoba, the western part of the province is dealing with power outages, which at one point was impacting more than 6,000 people.
Bruce Owen, the media relations officer with Manitoba Hydro, said the weather has caused a lot of problems for most of western Manitoba and as a result an emergency outage for the Rivers, Man. area, which is just northwest of Brandon.
"We've got some problems with our poles in the area, obviously caused by the overnight storm and the weather today," said Owen. "So we took an emergency outage to do some work at the substation there. The idea being that we're hoping to get everybody up very, very shortly and correct the problem."
Other areas, like Virden, Killarney and Boissevain are dealing with outages as the storm has caused broken poles and cross arms.
"We roughly had about 6,500 customers out. It's down to 3,400. Now the focus, of course, is getting the staff, equipment and machinery that we need to begin to replace some of these broken poles and cross arms."
Owen noted the affected customers range from Virden all the way to the Portage la Prairie area.
Owen said the main issue with fixing the poles, is having to find them.
