Thousands of Hydro-Québec clients remain in the dark, days after fierce storm | 24CA News

Thousands of Quebecers are spending one other day within the chilly and darkish, as hydro crews work to revive electrical energy to these affected by the ability outages after a fierce winter storm final week.

As of 10 a.m. Monday, energy was nonetheless out for about 68,000 Hydro-Québec prospects.

Sophie Brochu, CEO of Hydro-Québec, will present an replace at a news convention at 11 a.m.

Brochu stated throughout a news convention Sunday that staff had been busy making an attempt to revive energy to prospects who’ve been with out electrical energy since Friday, however stated more moderen outages would take longer to resolve.

At the peak of the storm, practically 380,000 Quebec prospects misplaced electrical energy.

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More than 550,000 purchasers have misplaced energy at one time or one other since Thursday night, in line with Brochu.

Transit delays

A Christmas Eve prepare derailment can also be persevering with to wreak havoc on vacation journey plans in Quebec.

After cancelling all Christmas Day trains on its Toronto-Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa routes, Via Rail tweeted Sunday night that it was cancelling all Boxing Day trains resulting from ongoing problems.

Early Monday morning,  some delays had been reported at Montreal’s Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International Airport and at Jean-Lesage International Airport in Quebec City. 

Environment Canada has issued a number of blowing snow advisories for almost all of areas between Montreal and Quebec, including that “hazardous road conditions can be expected due to reduced visibility in some areas.”