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Hydro Ottawa has restored its online power outage map to provide a clearer picture to the remaining customers waiting for their power to be restored this week.
Many residents in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, and some parts of Ontario and Quebec provinces remain without power nine days after a string of powerful late-spring storms swept through the region. On Sunday, Ottawa’s hydro utility said that as of Sunday, 9,000 homes and businesses in Ottawa were still unconnected to the grid, and more than a dozen schools in the capital
The May 21 storm has cost Hydro Ottawa $25-$30 million, more than five times what the 2018 tornadoes cost, CEO Bryce Conrad says.
Storm cleanup and power outages are still affecting many people's lives in Ottawa and some eastern Ontario communities, 10 days after the May 21 storm.
Hydro crews are now focusing on "smaller pockets" of outages across the city of Ottawa, after restoring electricity to the "bulk power" grid on Sunday.