Source: CTV News, September 24, 2018
Schools were closed across Ottawa Monday and many businesses urged their employees to work from home as Canada’s capital continued to assess and clean up the damage from a pair of tornado touchdowns.
More than 3,500 properties in Ottawa remained without electricity as of Monday morning, nearly three days after the tornadoes hit. Across the river in Gatineau, Que., Hydro-Quebec was reporting approximately 2,600 properties without power.
Twenty-four hours earlier, there had been about 70,000 properties without power in Ottawa alone – about half the total number of hydro customers impacted at the peak of the outages.
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