BC Hydro says it's sending further restore crews to Vancouver Island to revive energy to hundreds of people that stay at nighttime after Wednesday's windstorm.
Roughly 13,000 hydro clients on the South Island and the southern Gulf Islands have been nonetheless with out energy by 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Practically 4,000 extra clients in Ladysmith and Nanaimo have been additionally with out electrical energy.
A BC Hydro spokesperson says the ability supplier is bringing crews from Metro Vancouver to the toughest hit areas of Nanaimo, Higher Victoria and the Gulf Islands.
Bushes and energy strains have been nonetheless down in lots of areas of the island Thursday morning, roughly 24 hours after a extreme windstorm made landfall.
Greater than 53,000 clients misplaced electrical energy on the peak of the storm Wednesday afternoon. The storm brought on havoc on roadways, pressured the cancellation of some ferry journey and prevented a cruise ship from docking in Victoria.
The wind gusts additionally downed two bushes onto a Nanaimo residence, an incident that was caught on video by a neighbour. Nobody was injured when the bushes toppled however the harm to the house and a close-by instrument shed was important.
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