A windstorm, snowstorm and some falling trees causing a series of separate power outages on Nov. 16, spread from Canim Lake to 108 Mile Ranch and kept local residences in the dark for up to 16 hours.
The early Saturday morning outage hit areas of 108 Mile Ranch at 3:06 a.m., affected 163 residences until power was fully restored at 10:44 a.m. Another 764 houses in other areas of that community were left without power from 3:41 a.m. to as late as 1:02 p.m. Then over at Spring Lake, Dempsey Lake and Larson Lake roads to the north-east, the electricity shut off at 4:43 a.m. and was out until 1:09 p.m., impacting 39 residences.
Another 216 homes located east of Canim Place at Canim Lake had their power cut out at 4:02 a.m. which wasn’t fully restored until 4:56 p.m., almost 13 hours later. In Forest Grove, 11 Ruth Lake Road residences had no electrical service from 4:43 a.m.-8:57 p.m, more than 16 hours.
In the District of 100 Mile House, 74 homes and businesses were without hydro power from 4:08-11.56 a.m.
The night before, a Nov. 15 power outage from 10:10 p.m. until 4:34 a.m. on Nov. 16, hit 129 Wilcox Road households in Forest Grove, just about the time the wind had begun wreaking havoc further west.
A scattering of other power outages from storms over the same weekend affected less than eight residences each at varied times throughout the day, with durations ranging from about four to 11 hours.
