Hydro crews across eastern Ontario and western Quebec are working to restore power to more than 100,000 residents after a severe storm on April 29.
Strong winds and heavy rain resulted in trees and branches falling on power lines and breaking poles and wires. Entire trees were uprooted in areas with very wet or soft ground.
An outage map showed roughly 30,000 Hydro One customers still without power across Ontario as of 3:30 p.m. on April 30. Nearly 76,000 Quebec residents were still without power as of 10 a.m. on April 30, with most of the outages affecting the Laurentians north of Montreal as well as the Montérégie and Outaouais regions….