Monday 23 December 2013

Ice Storm 2013 hundreds of thousands without power

News Release

December 23, 2013 - For Immediate Release

Ontario Utilities Report 380,000 Outages; Restoration Efforts Ongoing


TORONTO – The Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) has this morning canvassed its membership – which encompasses all local electricity distributors across the province – to better determine the scope of current customer impacts resulting from the weekend ice storm.

The data compiled thus far from various sources confirms impacts largely restricted to the Greater Toronto Area and some immediately surrounding regions, with a total of approximately 380,000 customers without power. This is down from well over 600,000 at the peak.

Local electric utilities have reported the approximate number of outages shown below as of mid-day Monday. Areas not listed are reporting minimal or no impact, or were not immediately reachable. All numbers are approximate and are changing frequently.

Cambridge & North Dumfries Hydro Inc.
1,000
Canadian Niagara Power Inc. (Fort Erie, Port Colborne)
1,000
Centre Wellington Hydro Ltd.
40
Enersource Hydro Mississauga Inc.
750
Guelph Hydro Electric
50
Haldimand County Hydro Inc.
50
Horizon Utilities Corporation (Hamilton, St. Catherines)
1,500
Hydro One Networks (serving primarily rural areas)
110,000
Hydro One  Brampton Networks
3,500
Kingston Electricity Distribution
150
Milton Hydro Dist. Inc.
1,000
Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc.
40
Oakville Hydro Electricity Distribution Inc.
200
Oshawa PUC Networks
4,000
Powerstream Inc. (York Region)
16,300
Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited
219,000
Veridian Connections Inc. (Eastern GTA)
18,900
Waterloo North Hydro Inc.
200
Welland Hydro-Electric System Corp.
50
Whitby Hydro Electric Corp.
400

Still about 225,000 Toronto Hydro customers without power. The map has been iffy!


Ontario Hydro has many, many customers still without power.
Southern Ontario - right across to Kingston
Surrounding the GTA - many are out

Dear Prince Edward County
What we learned from Ice storm '98: keep your BBQs & generators outside. There were 35 deaths, and many became ill from carbon monoxide poisoning. Beware!

They are reporting 11 poisonings, and 2 deaths from carbon monoxide poison today.

4 comments:

eileeninmd said...

I hope you stay warm and safe!

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Kay L. Davies said...

I can't believe people would bring barbecues and generators inside. Brain freeze, I guess.
Glad to know you are safe.
Wishing you and yours the best possible Christmas under the circumstances.
Love, K

Hilary said...

It was a nasty one. We were very lucky and escaped the weather.. passed us by.

Powell River Books said...

It is so hard for most people when all the power goes out. I guess in a way we are lucky to be off the grid. - Margy