Ontario’s largest electrical utility says excessive winds in components of the province might trigger extra outages right now as crews work to revive energy to 1000’s nonetheless at midnight after a storm that pelted some areas with snow and freezing rain.
Hydro One says difficult highway situations are slowing down crews in some areas, and its outage map reveals some 15,000 prospects stay with out energy as of this morning.
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Greater than 60,000 prospects have been with out electrical energy at one level Monday.
The utility says the outages have been attributable to ice accumulation on tree branches that then knocked out energy traces.
In the meantime, Ontario’s highway info service stories a big stretch of freeway in northern Ontario stays closed.
Ontario 511’s highway situations map reveals closures for lots of of kilometres alongside Freeway 11 between North Bay and Hearst.
Setting Canada has issued advisories for blowing snow and snow squalls for swaths of southwestern and northern Ontario, with some areas dealing with an extra 50 centimetres of snow within the subsequent few days.
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