Last night’s (August 6) thunderstorm affected several hundred BC Hydro customers in the Cariboo.
Power went off at 6:27 pm leaving 380 customers without power East of Quesnel Lake Road.
21 customers in the 5200 block of Cariboo Forest Service Road, 9300 block of Keithly Creek Road and 5300 block of Harvey Creek Trail had their power go out at 10:07 pm.
Another 5 customers were left in the dark since 7:25 pm in the 6300 block of Rosette Lake Road.
A spokesperson for BC Hydro said crews have been assigned to these areas and the cause of the outage was due to trees down across lines.
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