Windstorm wreaks havoc in and around the city
Wind slowed down the Exo trains Friday. Bricks fell off a Park Ex façade and injured a man passing by; a man was killed by a falling tree in Bromont. Part of a church roof was ripped up in the Village.
The Hydro-Quebec power outage map is a crazy quilt Friday evening. Andy Riga says on Twitter that there are more than 2000 separate breaks in Quebec, and some people may be out for days. Hydro-Quebec says this is nothing like the 1998 ice storm because the main grid hasn’t been affected. It just takes time to go around and fix all the minor breaks from fallen trees and other wind damage.
Kevin 08:06 on 2019-11-02 Permalink
There are now 3,500 separate breaks, and still more than half a million houses in the dark-but amazingly not my place. (For years I used to lose power every two weeks, rain or shine, so I am glad about the work Hydro has done to beef up its network.)
Uatu 08:06 on 2019-11-02 Permalink
Did the REM people say how they will handle bad weather? Just wondering because the non compete clause makes them the only option to cross the bridge and that’ll be a lot of people stranded
Faiz Imam 21:21 on 2019-11-03 Permalink
I don’t know about any particular policies, but they have said that the system is powered from Brossard as well as near DM, coming off two completely separate parts of Hydro Quebec’s transmission network. If one side goes out, the other can power the whole thing.