Another 50,000 Hydro-Québec customers should see their power restored by the end of day on Sunday, the utility said while warning some of its remaining repairs to lines damaged by last week’s deadly ice storm may not be completed until Tuesday.
About 44,200 Hydro-Québec clients were without power around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, down from 114,000 earlier in the day, following Wednesday’s storm that covered trees and branches in a coat of ice that brought many to the ground.
“The goal is to reconnect 95 per cent today, by the end of the day, and then on Monday, almost all the remaining customers,” he said.As his residents face the possibility of a fifth day without electricity, the mayor of one particularly hard-hit Montreal suburb said it’s time for Hydro-Québec to start taking steps to prevent similar outages in the future.
Beaconsfield’s power lines are above ground, Bourelle said, adding the storm didn’t cause as many outages in areas where such infrastructure is buried. “People are angry, they’re frustrated, the fuses are shortening very quickly and, particularly, this is Easter Sunday, so just imagine, gatherings of family and things like that are not going to take place because they can’t cook,” he said.
The City of Montreal has also opened some libraries and cultural centres for people who need to recharge electronic devices or warm up.“Avoid walking under trees and on uncleared paths,” Plante wrote. “We still need several days to collect, transport and recover more than tens of thousands of trees and fallen branches.”
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