Saturday’s devastating storm has caused Peterborough City Council to declare a state of emergency.
Mayor Diane Therrien said Wednesday morning that she and the city’s emergency management team had notified the province of the decision.
More information about the city’s storm services is posted here.
Hydro One expects most customers in the city of Peterborough and others in the county to fully recover by 11 a.m. or 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Teams are working to restore electricity to more than 150,000 Ontario customers who are still without hydraulics following a deadly storm that ravaged the province on Saturday.
More than 98,000 Hydro One customers are still without electricity. As of Wednesday morning, Hydro Ottawa said it is working to restore power to about 65,000 customers.
At least 10 people have been killed, including four in the Peterborough area, and other communities, including Douro-Dummer Township, have declared a state of emergency following the storm that felled trees, downed power lines and damaged property. .
Some schools without electricity in the town and county of Peterborough remained closed on Wednesday, although some that had no electricity on Tuesday were able to reopen on Wednesday.
Saturday’s storm was a right, which is a widespread long-wind wind storm associated with a storm line. It developed near Sarnia on Saturday morning and continued northeast over southern Ontario, crossing Ottawa on Saturday afternoon, according to Environment Canada. Harmful gusts of wind were reported in much of southern Ontario as strong thunderstorms struck.
Western University’s Northern Tornadoes project team has officially confirmed that an EF2 tornado was embedded in the right-hand edge around 1:15 p.m. in Uxbridge and was found to have a maximum wind speed of 195 km. / h.
The same team confirmed that maximum winds of 190 km / h affected southern Ottawa.
Environment Canada has not yet said what the wind speed was at Peterborough, as it looks like the storm has wiped out weather records at Peterborough Airport.
Wind gusts of 132 km / h were recorded at Kitchener-Waterloo Airport, 120 km / h at both Ottawa International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport, 110 km / h at Toronto Buttonville, 89 km / h to Oshawa Airport and 83 km / h. km / ha Trenton.
More than 1 million customers with Hydro One, Ottawa Hydro and other Southern Ontario utilities were initially left without electricity after the storm.
Victoria Park
Peterborough County announced on Wednesday that County Victoria Park on Waterborne Street in Peterborough has been closed to the public until further notice to clean up after large trees and branches fell during Saturday’s storm.
Teams will also assess whether any of the park’s majestic trees were weakened and compromised by the storm.
There are also broken branches inside the trees that need to be removed.
“The safety of park visitors is our priority,” said director J. Murray Jones.
“Once Victoria Park is cleaned up and staff consider it safe to reopen, we’ll let you know. Thank you in advance for your patience in doing this work.”
Riverview Park and Zoo has also been closed for cleaning.
The city has estimated that the storm cut down more than 400 trees in the city.
– with archives of The Canadian Press
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