Etiket: outages
Severe thunderstorms | 85% of outages restored by Friday evening, says Hydro
(Montreal) Hydro-Quebec expects to have restored power to 85% of homes without electricity due to the thunderstorm on Thursday evening. The others might have to wait until Saturday or even…
Forest fires cause new power outages in the Montreal region
Nearly 310,000 Hydro-Quebec customers were without power Thursday afternoon due to forest fires in northern Quebec. The state corporation hopes to be able to absorb everything by the start of…
Forest fires | Power outages restored, new evacuations
Power was restored in Abitibi-Témiscamingue early Friday evening, after some 75,000 homes were without power for about two and a half hours. Forest fires force new evacuations in Senneterre and…
Heat wave in the American South | More than 400,000 power outages
(Austin) Nearly 400,000 customers were without power in the southern United States midday Monday, as the region was swept by an intense heat wave. Posted at 1:17 p.m. Paul J.…
Microsoft | Outages in early June were due to cyberattacks
(Boston) In early June, sporadic but serious outages affected Microsoft’s flagship office suite – including Outlook email and OneDrive file sharing apps – as well as the platform for managing…
Mile End merchants suffer from repeated power outages
Mile End merchants are losing thousands of dollars due to repeated preventive power cuts, sometimes considered “unreasonable”, in the Montreal district. They are calling for better communication from the City…
Hydro-Québec: outages are accelerating, Quebecers must prepare for them
You are not fooled, power outages caused by major weather events are more and more numerous. And Hydro-Québec invites the population to do its part to deal with these periods…
Power outages in Quebec: more than 73,000 homes without electricity
The strong gusts of wind blowing over the province caused numerous power outages on the Hydro-Quebec network on Monday. • Read also: Weather: rainy and windy start to the week…
Power Outages | Half a million homes were without electricity in Quebec
A loss of production during a maintenance operation at the Churchill Falls power plant in Labrador left nearly half a million homes without power on Tuesday noon. Posted at 12:38…
A loss of electricity production creates major outages at Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Quebec is busy repairing the broken pots after a loss of electricity production led to power outages affecting nearly half a million households in the province, this noon. They should,…
Power Outages | Half a million homes without electricity in Quebec
Half a million homes are currently without electricity in Quebec. On the Hydro-Québec site, the cause of breakdowns is identified as “equipment failure”. Posted at 12:38 p.m. Updated at 12:58…
Ice storms and power outages | Montreal closes its shelters
The City of Montreal announced Tuesday that it was closing its shelters for disaster victims, six days after the freezing rain storm which deprived tens of thousands of people of…
Phone and internet outages | Customers left in the dark
“There was no electricity at all for three days. Power came back about 36 hours ago. Still no internet. We are in the H2V zone,” Rae wrote on Easter Sunday.…
Ice storms and power outages | Still more than 21,000 customers in the dark
(Montreal) Some 21,000 Hydro-Québec customers are still in the dark. About 95% of homes have regained electricity since Wednesday’s ice storm, the state-owned company said Monday morning, stressing that it…
Ice storms and power outages | Still more than 37,000 customers in the dark
(Montreal) Hydro-Quebec was able to restore power Sunday evening to at least 95% of its customers plunged into darkness since the ice storm last Wednesday, but the next morning, tens…
Ice storms and power outages | Another 40,000 customers in the dark, nearly two-thirds in Montreal
(Montreal) As promised, Hydro-Québec was able to restore power Sunday evening to at least 95% of its customers plunged into darkness since Wednesday’s ice storm, even if some Quebecers will…
Power outages in Quebec | Seniors who were supposed to be prioritized had to wait in the dark
Despite their priority status, residences for seniors (RPA) in Montreal were without electricity for more than four days since they were not on the Public Security lists. Hydro-Québec intends to…
Food waste: Grocery bins full to bursting due to power outages
Thursday’s power outages forced Montreal grocery stores to trash hundreds of foods, many of which were salvaged by diehards. • Read also: ChefTouski: a virtual chef to counter waste •…
Power outages in Quebec | More than 100,000 households will have to wait until Monday
From 100,000 to 150,000 customers could have to wait until Monday to find electricity, warns Hydro-Quebec, at a time when the rate of reconnection slows down. Posted at 7:13 a.m.…
Significant increase in carbon monoxide poisoning since the start of power outages in Montreal
More than sixty cases of carbon monoxide poisoning leading to emergency visits have been reported in the last hours to Montreal Public Health, which calls on people facing power outages…