BC Hydro says it has restored power to 90 percent of customers who lost electricity this week when hurricane-force winds slammed into parts of the British Columbia coast, but forecasters say a new storm is on the way.
Winds from the so-called bomb cyclone weather system exceeded 100 km/h in some places Wednesday, with Environment Canada data showing remote Sartine Island off northern Vancouver Island hit by the most powerful gusts of the day, reaching 113 km/h.
The power utility says that as of 6:30 a.m. Thursday, 290,000 of the 320,000 customers affected by outages had regained power.
That leaves 28,000 people without electricity, but BC Hydro says crews have been “working around the clock” since Tuesday night, replacing dozens of downed power lines, poles and other electrical equipment….