Over 24,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power after spring snow storm – Montreal | 24CA News

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Published 26.03.2023
Over 24,000 Hydro-Québec customers without power after spring snow storm – Montreal | 24CA News

More than 24,000 Hydro-Québec purchasers are with out energy this morning after a spring storm induced heavy snow in some areas.

Hydro-Québec spokesman Jonathan Côté says the burden of the snow despatched tree branches bending and crashing down onto energy strains.

The Montérégie area south of Montreal and the Lanaudière area north of the town are recording the very best variety of outages on the utility’s web site, with 10,048 and seven,333 as of 10:30 a.m.

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More than 30,000 Quebecers have been with out energy at one level earlier Sunday morning.

Environment Canada says a number of elements of the province reported vital snowfall over the previous 24 hours, together with the Laurentians with 15 to twenty cm and the Lanaudière with 20.

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Some different elements of the province remained below a snowfall warning as of this morning, together with the Quebec City and Charlevoix areas.

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