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Over 660,000 Hydro-Québec customers still had no power as of 9:30 a.m. Friday, almost two days after a freezing rain storm battered the province. Just over half (340,532) of the remaining households without power were in Montreal.
Over 1,100,000 Hydro-Québec customers — likely including millions of people — were still without power as of Thursday morning, and the Crown corporation has warned that some might not see the restoration of electricity until the weekend. Photos circulating on social media show streets littered with fallen trees and power lines following Wednesday's freezing rain storm. But to see the true scale of the damage, look to Hydro-Québec's outage map.
Hydro-Québec is hoping to restore power to between 300,000 and 350,000 blacked-out clients by the end of the day on Thursday, April 6, representatives said in a press conference Thursday morning. For some unlucky clients, power issues could extend through Saturday, according to Régis Tellier, the Vice-President of Operations and Maintenance at Hydro-Québec. Earlier in the day, Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon stated that they expect only one-third of affected customers to have power back by Friday morning.