Another 50,000 Hydro–Québec customers should see their power restored by end of day on Sunday, the utility said while warning some of its remaining repairs to lines damaged by last week’s deadly ice storm may not be completed until Tuesday.
About 83,700 Hydro–Québec clients were without power around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, down from 114,000 earlier in the day, following Wednesday’s storm that covered trees and branches in a coat of ice that brought many to the ground.
Those customers in the dark include approximately 59,000 in Montreal, down from 80,000, according to the company’s website.
Régis Tellier, the utility’s vice-president of operations and maintenance, told reporters Sunday morning that power has been restored to over 90 percent of the more than one million customers who lost electricity — including 180,000 who saw the lights come back on Saturday….