Almost 200 households on Quadra Island are waking up without electricity on a chilly October morning.
BC Hydro is reporting 195 of their customers have been affected by an outage on the island.
A tree falling onto wires is the cause of the pause in power. BC Hydro’s outage map shows it to be impacting properties north of Hope Spring Road.
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This is the second time in two weeks the island’s residents have been without electricity.
On September 29-30, a storm resulted in the power being temporarily turned off on Quadra Island, as well as Cortes Island, and parts of North Vancouver Island too.
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