Image: BC Hydro / Over half of Hope has seen its power go out Wednesday morning due to a transmission circuit failure. Over 5,000 customers in and around Hope are impacted by the outage.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Significant power outage in Hope

Over half of Hope loses power Wednesday morning, as outage stretches all the way to Lytton

Nov 20, 2024 | 10:29 AM

HOPE — While the eastern Fraser Valley emerged from Tuesday night’s fierce windstorm relatively unscathed, the District of Hope has experienced a significant power outage Wednesday morning.

According to BC Hydro’s website, over 3,700 customers in just Hope alone lost power at about 9:24 a.m. Wednesday due to a transmission circuit failure.

The outage affects 1,816 customers in downtown Hope, Silver Creek south of Highway 1, Floods, and Ruby Creek farther west.

A similar outage has left 1,926 customers in northwest Hope, Dogwood Valley, Squeah and Chawathil First Nation without power as of 9:24 a.m.

A third outage has impacted 1,730 customers in Manning Park, Sunshine Valley, Othello and southeast Hope.

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Crews have been assigned. There is currently no estimated time of power restoration.

One person reported on a Hope-area Facebook group that no gas stations or restaurants are open as of 10 a.m.

Along Highway 1 in the Fraser Canyon, similar outages are being reported in Spuzzum, Boston Bar, and Kanaka Bar stretching north up to Lytton.