To quote AFP Saturday (8/4), About 400,000 homes in Quebec were in absolute darkness due to an ice storm. However, according to the electricity supplier Hydro-Quebec, it recovered 50% of the outages.
“We have restored power to more than 50% of customers affected by the outage,” said a statement from Hydro-Quebec.
Electricity in some homes in Quebec will likely remain off for the next two days.
According to Quebec Premier Francois Legault, the latest reports of deaths related to the ice storm are known to have been carbon monoxide poisoning from a portable generator used in his home.
The second victim was an Eastern Ontario resident who was killed by a falling tree on Wednesday (5/4) and a 60-year-old Quebecer died when he was crushed by a tree branch. tree as he tried to clear his land on Thursday morning (6/4).
A temperature of around one degree Celsius had melted the ice, but a gust of wind shook the trees, potentially knocking down more branches
Authorities have advised residents to stay away from power lines.
The latest power outage is the largest in Quebec since an ice storm hit the region in 1998 and plunged the province into chaos for several weeks.
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