Parts of Ontario The province’s biggest electricity supplier said on Thursday it could wait weeks to fully restore power after a massive snowstorm.
Thousands of customers were without electricity till Thursday afternoon hydro oneOutage map of, some expected to be operational by Friday.
But the utility said problems in Huntsville, Ontario, where hundreds of residents were still in the dark Thursday evening, may not be fully resolved until Jan. 15.
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Tiziana Besega-Rosa, a spokeswoman for Hydro One, said another wave of snow had slowed restoration work in the area, adding to the number of outages.
“There’s a mix of situations where people may be without power since the start of the storm and then there are people who may have been affected by recent outages due to continued weather (conditions),” she said.
He said if weather conditions permit, technicians may be able to fully restore power to some parts of the province earlier than expected.
According to Hydro One’s outage map, about 1,000 customers in the townships of Parry Sound and Pentanguishen may be without power until January 4.
“It’s understandable that customers are going to be frustrated that they’re without power, and it’s cold,” she said. “We are doing everything we can to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.”
Hundreds of people were left without power after storms hit parts of Ontario and Quebec last week.
The township’s mayor, Mayor Nancy Alcock, said Huntsville and other areas of the Muskoka district experienced one of the worst storms in decades, with nearly 150 centimeters of snow, along with strong winds, both of which caused delays in restoring power to the area. Hui.
“Our crews have been working side by side with Hydro wherever they can, but literally when it was in the middle of the storm, really trying to reach places they had a little bit of a problem,” he said.
She said Muskoka is a heavily forested area, and heavy snow and high winds have downed many trees, causing more damage and forcing equipment to be removed from roads to allow Hydro Forest crews to access affected areas. has been prevented from being enabled.
“You have these huge tree canopies covered in snow, so they’re really heavy, and then high winds … It’s a real recipe for serious hydro problems,” she said, noting that she herself Had experienced short-term power outages during the storm, once for about three hours.
Alcock said Hydro One had done a “phenomenal” job restoring power so far, but it would be “unfortunate” if power could not be fully restored before January 15.
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