The damage is numerous the day after the violent storms which swept Quebec on Saturday.
Strong winds were recorded in several places, in particular on Lake Memphremagog with gusts of up to 151 km/h, in Trois-Rivières with peaks at 96 km/h and in Gatineau up to 90 km/h.
Many homes are still without electricity on Sunday. At the height of the event, some 550,000 customers were without power, Hydro-Quebec said.
The most affected regions are the Laurentians where nearly 155,000 households are affected, Sunday morning, followed by Lanaudière (101,000 customers) and Outaouais (97,000 customers).
Sunday morning, Hydro-Québec mentioned that “the recovery has progressed overnight and (that) more than 350 teams (more than 700 workers) are mobilized this morning. »
The Montreal region was generally spared by the storms, which moved from Ontario in the regions of Outaouais, Laurentides, Lanaudière and Mauricie to that of the Capitale-Nationale on Saturday at the end of the afternoon. Estrie and Chaudière-Appalaches were hit by another storm cell overnight, around 3 a.m. Sunday.
Several municipalities reported fallen trees and breakage.
In Val-Morin, in the Laurentians, residents are asked to reduce their consumption of drinking water to the strict minimum. “Due to the power outage, the supply of water produced by our pumping stations is at a standstill,” the municipality wrote on its Facebook page.
In Lanaudière, two schools were damaged by the weather. These are the Sainte-Bernadette school in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes and the Saint-Alphonse school in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, according to a note published by the Samares School Service Center, which indicates that it is working with experts to assess the situation and “organize the return to class in a safe manner”.
In Outaouais, several residents have shared photos of the Saint-Fidèle de Fassett church on social networks, whose bell tower has collapsed.