Residents of Laurentians and Lanaudière were left to pick up the debris following Thursday’s storm even as the heat wave continues it’s grip across southern Quebec.
The heavy winds also caused trees and branched to fall resulting in power outages.
Across the province, over 137, 000 customers were in the dark around 9 p.m. Thursday, according to Hydro-Québec spokesperson Audrey St-Pierre.
“Thunderstorm cells swept across several regions of Quebec late yesterday afternoon and evening,” St-Pierre. “Outages were caused primarily by strong wind and lightning.”
The Laurentians region, with nearly 40,000 outages, and the Lanaudière region, with more than 22,000 outages, were the most affected by power outages. As of noon Friday, those numbers were at over 14,000 in the Laurentians and 10,000 in the Lanaudière region.
In Montreal, over 9,000 households were affected by the Hydro outage, while in Laval the tally was over 13,000 Thursday evening.
A tent in the Assomption area had also collapsed due to the storm.
