Parts of Metro Vancouver could see some wet snow, Environment Canada says
Province-wide, more than 300,000 lost service
BC Hydro reports as of 4 a.m., nearly 175,000 customers without electricity on the southwest coast
Only 1,200 homes and businesses, most in north-central B.C., remained in the dark early Friday
It’s the second big power failure this week in Langley
Cause of outage hitting more than 4,400 customers unknown
Storm knocked out power to more than 500,000 homes and business in the four Atlantic provinces
BC Hydro crews were able to restore most customers within two hours but some were out a big longer
More than 30,000 customers were affected
A beaver felled the tree that caused a service outage in B.C.’s northwest June 7
Ten people died after Saturday’s thunderstorm, power expected to be fully restored within a few days
Thousands of residents spent the night without electricity
Zeballos, Tahsis, Gold River cut off from rest of Island; spend days without power
Sunday outage fixed in less than an hour
Cause of the outage was not provided
More than 3,000 properties were without power Friday afternoon
Despite an increase of pressure on the Western grid, blackouts are not expected like in some U.S. states
