Emergency repairs are needed on part of the transmission line
Outages have been frustrating for a village made up of more than 50% seniors, Mayor says
Atmospheric river packing several powerful rainstorms heading for southern B.C.
Hundreds of customers, primarily in and around Sooke, still awaiting restoration of power Friday
Zeballos, Tahsis, Gold River cut off from rest of Island; spend days without power
Close to 10,000 were in the dark Thursday morning
Impacted customers down to 586 from 2,500
50,000 people lost power in southern Vancouver Island Monday afternoon
Thousands of people, multiple businesses without power across region
Outages under investigation as windstorm takes hold
B.C. Hydro crews investigating
The Tuesday outages have affected thousands of customers
Close to 2,000 customers lost power for over an hour Wednesday
Overnight outage Oct. 4 needed to affect long-term repairs for summer-damaged towers
BC Hydro said the outages affected 16,162 on the south Island as of 10 a.m.
Downed tree left customers without power Wednesday morning
No injuries reported, BC Hydro crews called in to ensure safe exits
No injuries reported, BC Hydro crews called in to ensure safe exits
Heat didn’t cause damage to transmission pole, but it hampered efforts to find the problem
Despite an increase of pressure on the Western grid, blackouts are not expected like in some U.S. states
