![]() ![]() "So to access, say a broken pole or a cross arm or something, we've got to obviously get into that ditch or get around it. Here’s the kind of ice they were seeing on power lines in Brandon #MBoutage /1Nys9KzkJBĪdding to the problem Owen said, is that in some areas where there are broken poles, there are a lot pools of water that have not absorbed into the ground yet. And then as we start to fix stuff, thinking it's fixed, we find out additional damage."Ĭrews have been busy removing ice from power lines throughout southwestern Manitoba today. "Some of them we already know, obviously. Owen said the main issue with fixing the poles, is having to find them. Owen noted the affected customers ranged from Virden all the way to the Portage la Prairie area. Now the focus, of course, is getting the staff, equipment and machinery that we need to begin to replace some of these broken poles and cross arms." "We roughly had about 6,500 customers out. Other areas, like Virden, Killarney and Boissevain dealt with outages as the storm caused broken poles and cross arms. The idea being that we're hoping to get everybody up very, very shortly and correct the problem." "So we took an emergency outage to do some work at the substation there. "We've got some problems with our poles in the area, obviously caused by the overnight storm and the weather today," said Owen. area, which is just northwest of Brandon. Most of the outages are in the Nopiming Provincial Park area, with some isolated outages in the Killarney area.īruce Owen, the media relations officer with Manitoba Hydro, said the weather caused a lot of problems for most of western Manitoba and as a result an emergency outage for the Rivers, Man. on Friday, Manitoba Hydro said there are about 120 customers without power in the province. As snow fell throughout Manitoba, the western part of the province dealt with power outages on Thursday, which at one point were impacting more than 6,000 people.Īs of 9:30 a.m.
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