A freak winter storm that tore apart the White Rock Pier last week is still affecting thousands of BC Hydro customers.
The electric utility company offered an update Sunday morning that stated “about 44,000 customers remain without power – including about 4,000 in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley and 40,000 on Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands”.
Since the storm hit on Thursday, BC Hydro crews have restored power to over 550,000 customers.
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More than 800 field personnel continue to work around-the-clock to repair the extensive damage to BC Hydro’s infrastructure after one of the most severe windstorms it has experienced in 20 years.
Restoring remaining customers continues to be a challenge due to the extent of the damage.
Hundreds of individual outages remain that crews have to attend to individually to make repairs, which includes restringing hundreds of spans of power lines, and replacing power poles and transformers.
Downed trees have made it impossible to access some areas across Metro Vancouver.
In some rural parts of Surrey and the Fraser Valley, it may take another 24 to 36 hours to restore power.
Updated estimates for power restoration are posted as they become available at bchydro.com/outages, and a list of extended outages is available here.
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