Mother nature played havoc with the power in Quesnel last night (June 24).
BC Hydro said at 6:16 pm 3739 customers were in the dark west of Bryce Road due to the adverse weather.
They said the outage was partially restored later at 7:51 pm leaving the remaining 2268 customers without power until all repairs were completed on that line at 10:15 pm.
623 customers were also affected by an outage North of Brownmiller Road, West of Bjornson Road at 6:22 pm.
North of Garner Road, South of Marsh Road, West of Fraser Road and East of Ernst Road, 14 customers had their power go off at 6:30 pm and restored by BC Hydro crews this morning at 1:30.
That outage was caused by trees down on lines.
BC Hydro said last night at 6:53 8 customers lost their power on the 12200 block of Lavoie Road Dunkley Meter Station, 43100 to 44100 block of Quesnel Hixon Road and was restored at 10:30 that evening.
Two other outages also occurred last night.
At 10:54 less than 5 customers went without power due to tree down on lines on the 500 block of Murphy Street until it was restored at 12:14 this morning.
And on the 1000 block of Eagle Road less than 5 customers had their power go out at 7:46 pm.
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