(Montreal) Nearly 24,000 Hydro-Québec subscribers had no power at their homes at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning due to damage caused to the electricity transmission network by freezing rain at the end of Tuesday day.
Posted at 6:18 a.m.
In Montérégie, the most affected region, nearly 9,300 subscribers were in the dark shortly before dawn on Wednesday.
The total was nearly 5,300 in the Outaouais, nearly 3,700 in the Laurentians, about 3,200 in the Centre-du-Québec region and nearly 1,800 on the island of Montreal.
Environment Canada had lifted its freezing rain warning early in the day for several areas, including those of Montreal, the Laurentians and Montérégie, but it remained in effect for the regions of Trois-Rivières, Beauce and Quebec.
Meanwhile, the federal agency also ended the winter storm warning for several regions of Quebec and northern New Brunswick which received snow on Tuesday and Wednesday, but it remains in effect for the whole Côte-Nord, from Baie-Comeau to Blanc-Sablon, as well as for the Gaspé east of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts.
The school service centers of Appalaches, Bois-Francs, Charlevoix, Fer (Sept-Îles sector), Harricana and Monts-et-Marées have closed schools due to bad weather conditions.