Most Hydro One customers in eastern Ontario are expected to have their electricity restored tonight, Hydro One says.
“We’ve got the bulk of people back on,” spokeswoman Marylena Stea said just before 6 p.m. She said a few customers in remote areas remain without power following Monday’s storm, but it was hoped that would change by about 8:15 p.m.
“In Picton everyone is back on,” said Stea. Earlier that afternoon under 40 customers had yet to have their power restored.
Fifteen customers in Tweed were still waiting for their service to be restored, Stea said, adding more in the area between Brockville and Vankleek Hill were in the same situation.
Hydro One’s Daniele Gauvin said approximately 21,000 Hydro One customers were without electricity late Monday night after dozens of hydro poles were uprooted or snapped and power lines felled by lighting and strong winds ranging from 90 to 100 km/h.
By Tuesday afternoon crews had restored power to all but about 3,500 in eastern Ontario.
Belleville fared much better despite a lightning strike on a power line at about 5:20 p.m. Monday.
George Armstrong, manager of regulatory affairs and key projects for Veridian Connections, said the outage was “relatively major” but short-lived.
“We experienced a lightning strike on a line just outside of the Belleville transformer station, which caused us to lose our supply from Hydro One on one feeder,” Armstrong said Tuesday. “It’s not uncommon in a lightning storm.
“That affected service to about 5,000 of our customers, and they were generally located north of Bridge Street and between Sidney Street and MacDonald Ave,” said Armstrong.
The power station is on Centre Street, just east of the Quinte Sports Centre on Cannifton Road.
Armstrong said power on that line was restored fully at 6:38 p.m. Monday.
“We had a few other isolated outages due to falling tree limbs,” he added.
All Belleville customers now have electricity.
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