Power back on for 98 per cent of homes affected by B.C. windstorm, snow in forecast
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VANCOUVER — The lights are back on in 98 per cent of the 330,000 homes affected by outages caused by a fierce windstorm that toppled trees and brought down power lines throughout British Columbia’s south coast on Friday night.
The BC Hydro website shows just under 11,000 customers were still without power as of 11:00 a.m. Sunday, with the majority located throughout the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast and the western Fraser Valley.
The Crown utility says crews have been working around the clock to replace dozens of spans of power line, hydro polls, transformers and other equipment damaged by the storm that produced gusts of wind up to 90 kilometres per hour in Vancouver.
Meanwhile, Environment Canada has upgraded a series of special weather statements to snowfall warnings for parts of the southern and central Interior, including the Chilcotin, Fraser Canyon, Nicola, Similkameen, South Thompson, Okanagan and Boundary regions, where snow could persist through Monday.
