Tens of thousands still without power in Ontario after pair of storms

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 05, 2025 9:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Officials successful confederate Ontario judge prolonged powerfulness outages could past good into adjacent week aft a outpouring tempest caused dense damage.

Provincial inferior supplier Hydro One says much than 107,000 customers are inactive without powerfulness arsenic of Saturday morning, with 3,900 crews moving to get the powerfulness backmost on.

The crystal tempest caused terrible harm past play successful cities similar Orillia, which has turned its recreation centre into a alleviation presumption wherever residents tin entree essentials and complaint their devices.

Another tempest strategy besides passed done the state earlier this week and caused much outages, slowing down restoration work.

Hydro One says restoration efforts are acceptable to past done the week, though it could instrumentality longer successful agrarian areas.

Premier Doug Ford says crews from crossed Canada are successful Ontario moving with provincial crews to get people's powerfulness restored.