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Thousands were without powerfulness Wednesday greeting aft a bid of convulsive thunderstorms deed Quebec. The hardest deed regions see Montreal, Laval, Montérégie, Laurentians, Lanaudière and Outaouis.
Hydro-Québec says crews are moving to reconstruct work arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable
CBC News
· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 6:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago
Thousands of radical are inactive without powerfulness connected Wednesday aft terrible thunderstorms made their mode crossed Quebec Tuesday evening.
Winds of betwixt 80 to 100 kilometres an hr were registered astatine the Dorval and Saint-Hubert airports respectively.
As of 6 a.m., connected Wednesday, adjacent to 100,000 homes and businesses were inactive successful the dark, with Hyrdo-Québec saying the hardest deed regions were Montreal, Montérégie, Laurentians, Outaouais, and Lanaudière.
The powerfulness inferior said crews were connected the crushed moving to reconstruct powerfulness arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.
In Montreal, the tempest deed astatine astir 8 p.m., with convulsive winds bringing down histrion branches and adjacent sectioning off respective hydro poles successful immoderate areas.
One wounded was reported, aft a teen was trapped nether a histrion that collapsed n the city's Ahuntsic neighbourhood. According to Urgences- Santé spokesperson, Benjamin Dansereaux, the lad is successful captious condition.
The winds besides caused large harm astatine the Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont infirmary starring to a chaotic evening.
Written by Annabelle Olivier with files from Lauren McCallum
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