Many Quebec homes were plunged into darkness Tuesday morning due to outages on the Hydro-Quebec electricity network, while extreme cold raged in the province.
At the height of the outage, more than 70,000 people were without electricity, around 6 a.m., the vast majority of whom were in Montreal.
A transformer breakdown at Hydro-Québec’s Charland substation, in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, subsequently occurred late in the morning, depriving approximately 15,000 customers of power.
Around 12:30 p.m., the situation was almost completely back under control.
In addition to Montreal, the Outaouais and Montérégie regions also suffered during the morning.
-Some power outages were also recorded in other regions, notably in the Laurentians, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Centre-du-Québec, Laval and Lanaudière.
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