Storm Causes Widespread Power Outages
Saturday, April 27, 2013 @ 10:54 AM
Prince George, B.C. – B.C. Hydro crews are dealing with an outbreak of power outages which accompanied the arrival of a wild and windy storm that hit central and northern BC this morning.
Hydro reports six power outages in Prince George at the present time, with more reports coming in steadily. There are two outages in Quesnel. That covers the 8 in the central region, affecting more than 3-thousand customers. There are 27 outages in the northern region, including Vanderhoof, Terrace, Smithers, Houston, Fort St James, Burns Lake, Chetwynd and Dawson Creek.
Here in Prince George the outages affect these areas:
North of Kinney Road
West of Cranbrook Hill Road
East of Bench Drive, West of Otway and southwest of North Nechako Road.
North of Proppe, south of Patricia, west of Guay Road and east of Highway 16.
South of Leslie and east of Blackwater.
North of 18th, south of 15th, east of Lyon Street and west of Central.
Further information to follow.
Meantime, on the Hart its snowing and hailing.
Comments
Smart meter don’t fail me now!!!
Has hydro cut back on it’s crews that clear trees from the hydro right of ways??
Jrold, or maybe outages could have been more extensive.
I bet hydro planned this so they could send the power south…
Excuse me while I go adjust my tinfoil hat
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