B.C. Hydro expects power to be restored for 1,000 customers around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. The first power outages were at 4:30 a.m., and the majority were without power at 7:43 a.m.
Crews from B.C. Hydro are working to restore power to close to 1,000 customers Wednesday morning after trees came down across wires on Gabriola Island.
Power went out for some customers around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when the wires came down.
Crews are onsite at an outage in #Nanaimo affecting 1,000 customers. They hope to have power restored by 10:30 a.m. Updates here: https://t.co/JogUEBVBvU pic.twitter.com/KBXCP4b8Dp
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) August 8, 2018
The majority of those affected by the outage on the western half of the Island happened just before 7:45 a.m.
B.C. Hydro estimates power to come back on around 10:30 a.m.
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