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Just under 9,000 Quebec homes were still without power Saturday morning in the aftermath of the violent storms that swept through the province on Thursday afternoon.
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Shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday, the exact number of customers plunged into blackout stood at 8,802, a marked improvement on the 217,000 affected early Friday morning. At the height of the crisis on Thursday evening, 392,000 customers were affected by blackouts.
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The number of customers without power momentarily jumped to more than 36,000 on Saturday morning, but this was because of an animal that made its way into a substation in the Montérégie region and caused an outage. The situation was quickly resolved.
Hydro-Québec had set itself a target of reconnecting 85 per cent of its affected customers by the end of day Friday, which it achieved — and exceeded. However, reconnecting the remaining 20,000 customers to the network will be a more complex operation.
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“Of the 530 or so outages that remain, nearly 90 per cent affect fewer than 50 customers, so it’s a lot of work to restore a small number of customers. That’s why the numbers will continue to go down (Saturday), but may continue to go down more slowly,” explained Hydro-Québec spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers.
Saturday’s good weather should allow repair crews to proceed more quickly, Des Rosiers said. An estimated 800 people are working Saturday in a bid to restore service to the affected customers, she said. Crews have been redeployed from less-affected regions to areas where there are more outages, she added.
Hydro-Québec has not set a precise target for the number of customers who will be reconnected on Saturday. The company made no secret of the fact some households may have to wait until Sunday or early next week before regaining access to electricity, particularly in more complex cases and isolated areas.
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On Saturday afternoon, the situation was slowly improving in the regions of Lanaudière, with 1,890 customers affected, and Montérégie, with 2,401 customers affected. In Montreal, the number of subscribers without power, however, jumped to 7,668 in the middle of the day, while it stabilized at 2,700 in the morning. In the afternoon, however, it was down to 1,577. In Outaouais, 1,724 customers were without power on Saturday afternoon.
The most serious outages are in Sorel, Lavaltrie, Lanoraie, L’Assomption and Terrebonne, Des Rosiers said.
Of the 500 or so outages still in progress across Quebec, around 300 have lasted more than 24 hours. The others may have been triggered by tree branches weakened by the storms, which later fell onto the wires.
On Thursday, a system of severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes moved about 450 kilometres between Ottawa and Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, halfway between Trois-Rivières and Quebec City.
All affected regions received rainfall amounts ranging from 50 to 90 millimetres, causing sewer overflows and flooding in several municipalities.
In Montreal, the city reported on Friday it had received 88 millimetres of rain in less than two hours the previous day. That’s just shy of the 91 mm average amount Montreal typically receives in July.
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