Open in full screen mode Thousands of Quebec households are deprived of power Thursday morning due to the violent winds that swept the province Wednesday evening. (Archive photo) Radio-Canada Voice synthesis , based on artificial intelligence, allows you to generate spoken text from written text. After sun and heat, rain, snow and strong winds caused hundreds of power outages across Quebec on Wednesday evening. In its update released at 3:01 p.m. Thursday, Hydro-Québec reported 633 outages in its territory for a total of 35,202 customers without electricity. At the peak of the outages, early Thursday morning, some 250,000 customers were without power. The hardest hit regions are currently Montérégie (167 outages, 10,759 customers), Estrie (103 outages, 4748 customers), Laurentides (88 outages 4281 customers), Montreal (40 outages, 3415 customers), Chaudière-Appalaches (64 outages, 3141 customers), Centre-du-Québec (47 outages, 2285 customers), Centre-du-Québec (47 outages, 2285 customers) and Outaouais (51 outages, 1647 customers). A major breakdown also immobilized three Réseau express métropolitain (REM) trains on Wednesday evening, forcing the organization to interrupt its service until Thursday morning. < p class="StyledBodyHtmlParagraph-sc-48221190-4 hnvfyV">A first train was able to be evacuated almost instantly, explained REM spokesperson Francis Labbé. Another, broken down in Pointe-Saint-Charles, near the Costco store, was later evacuated using emergency stairs and the passengers were picked up by buses. Loading in progress ELSE ON NEWS: Conservative victory in the riding of DurhamLoading ELSE ON NEWS: Conservative victory in the Durham riding As for the train stopped on the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge, the task was more complicated. Some of the passengers posted on social networks that they had been stuck for almost two hours. We were trying to replenish the track to be able to take out the train itself with the passengers inside, but it was taking a little while. So, we sent another train to evacuate them, indicated Mr. Labbé. According to Hydro-Québec, Around a hundred teams were dispatched to the field on Wednesday evening to repair the affected installations. On Thursday morning, a total of 470 teams will be working to restore electricity, the state company announced on the social network X. The state-owned company presented a plan earlier this week to reduce the number of breakdowns by 35% within 7 to 10 years. Hydro-Québec plans to replace 28,000 wooden poles. She also wants to install 500 composite posts, stronger than wooden posts, in certain strategic locations. The Quebecers have seen all the colors in recent days. Unusual heat swept across the province on Tuesday. This heat even made its way to Kuujjuaq, in Northern Quebec. After the heat, the violent winds came. Environment Canada had issued warnings of violent winds and sudden cooling of temperatures for almost all regions of Quebec on Wednesday morning, including violent westerly winds blowing up to 90 km/h. Result: in less than six hours, the temperature in the greater Montreal area went from 13 degrees Celsius to -12 degrees, a temperature range of 25 degrees. On Thursday, temperatures are expected to remain below freezing for several degrees. They are forecast to rise again on Friday, and starting Saturday, at least four days of spring-like weather are expected to occur in many areas. With information from The Canadian Press
Conservative victory in the riding of Durham
Conservative victory in the Durham riding
By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116