Hydro Ottawa meets its Friday deadline to restore electricity to most customers in the region and says certain hardest-hit areas expect electricity to recover on Thursday night.
“It is our sincere hope, weather permitting, that we will have most of our electrical system up and running tomorrow night,” Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad said during a city update on Thursday. the afternoon.
He said that while the “thickness” of the main energy arteries will be restored, there will be bags of customers living on some dead-end roads and streets who may not see electricity until serious damage is repaired. equipment and remove debris from your homes.
Conrad said that depending on the weather, hydro workers hope to reactivate all or part of these communities by Thursday night:
- Bel Air Heights (in the Iris area, north of Baseline, east of Woodroffe Avenue and southwest of Maitland Avenue, south of Highway 417).
- Overbrook area.
- Richmond people.
- High view.
- Colonnade Road area near the Prince of Wales.
- Merivale Road, south of Hunt Club and north of Slack Roads.
“There will be absolutely other pockets and communities where they will try to revitalize,” he said.
“Even where the areas are re-energized, there will be residents who are not re-fed due to what I pointed out earlier, mainly due to damage or trees … or other debris.”
Stittsville residents share generators and throw food away after four days without light
After a few days in the dark, Stittsville residents described an almost constant buzz of generators and people coming together to help each other clean up Saturday’s storm.
Alain Gonthier, the city’s director general of public works, said that while the rain has started and is likely to continue over the weekend, the crews “will be out there”.
He noted that 54 intersections do not yet have operational traffic lights, below the 75 cited Wednesday.
He also said the 15 large containers of organic garbage placed throughout the city will be removed on Saturday. He noted that crews have collected 33 tons of organic waste that was damaged last week due to power outages.
90,000 customers still without electricity
City officials Hydro Ottawa and Ottawa police offered an update Thursday afternoon on cleaning and restoring electricity some 106 hours after a devastating and deadly storm swept through the region.
More than 90,000 customers in the Ottawa-Gatineau region remain without electricity on Thursday for nearly five days after the destructive and fatal headwind storm, including about 45,000 in Hydro Ottawa territory.
More than 350,000 customers in the region were initially left without electricity on Saturday. The CBC count was about 150,000 on Tuesday morning and 115,000 on Wednesday morning.
Hydro Ottawa officials are still meeting Friday’s deadline to return energy to most residents, although projected wind, rain and potential storms could slow it down.
Other areas may take longer. The mayor of Clarence-Rockland, Ontario, told the CBC News Network on Tuesday morning that he wants residents of his eastern Ottawa city to prepare for a week without electricity.
Most local Hydro One customers have an estimated meal time of Thursday or Friday.
Some communities are opening emergency centers for people facing days without light and in need of help.
Ottawa now has 20 such centers. All have been open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.