(Montreal) Saturday’s strong winds, with gusts of 90 km/h, caused a lot of headaches for Hydro-Québec at the end of the afternoon and evening. About 70,000 customers were without power at the height of the outage around 7 p.m. when strong winds blew in southern Quebec.
Power was gradually restored in the evening. Nevertheless, more than 16,000 customers were still without power Sunday morning, around 7:45 a.m., mainly in Montérégie.
The regions of Montérégie (5,409 customers still out of order), Laval (2,093 customers) and the Laurentians (1,830 customers) were the regions most affected by these power outages, which persisted Sunday morning.
The Estrie region was also affected on Sunday morning with 780 subscribers to the state-owned company without electricity. They were more than double the day before in the dark (4141 customers).
Other outages were also reported Sunday morning in the Lanaudière (1,830 customers) and Outaouais (607 customers) regions, but to a lesser extent.
Hydro-Québec said in the evening that its teams were working to restore service as quickly as possible.
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change had forecast that winds would reach 90 km / h in many regions of Quebec on Saturday.
Around 8 p.m., the wind warning was lifted in the regions of Montreal, Laval, Montérégie and the Laurentians, then around 10 p.m. in the other regions.