Hydro Ottawa has restored its online power outage card to provide a clearer picture of other customers waiting for their power to be restored this week.
“As most of the power grid is now fully operational, we are now able to relaunch our online outage map, tailored to customers who have been without electricity since last week’s storm. “Customers who are still without power can now understand the expected day on which their power is expected to be restored,” Hydro Ottawa said in a statement on its website.
The utility company said that by 10 a.m. Tuesday, 98 percent of people who had lost electricity in the storm had been reconnected.
There are still dozens of small breaks scattered around the city. As of Tuesday morning, there were about 3,500 customers without electricity, Joseph Mulia of Hydro Ottawa told CTV Morning Live.
“We have made great progress,” he said. “We’ve reached 3,500, which is amazing, and you’d think it’s almost time to celebrate, but certainly not 3,500. So we still have all the boots on the ground.
“All resources are 100 percent still for that until we see all recovered.”
Expected recovery times vary from the end of the day Tuesday to the end of the day, at the latest.
“As crews allow the remaining outages, the recovery date for other customers will depend on a number of factors, including debris, downed trees and damaged poles that require replacement in the worst affected areas,” the utility said.
CEO Bryce Conrad told reporters Monday that trees remain the biggest obstacle for crews.
“Until we get to these remaining outages, that’s the problem: the trees and the contacts of the trees on the wires,” Conrad said. “We have teams in forestry, we have many forest entrepreneurs, some arrived today, others will arrive tomorrow and they are doing so. They will just shoot and remove these trees from the wires. “
Conrad stressed that the storm had caused unprecedented damage to the power grid.
“It’s actually a six-mile-wide F2 tornado that went through it,” he said. “No one is building infrastructure to survive winds of 190 km / h. It’s that simple. It would be prohibitively expensive and it’s just not something that has been done. “
Conrad said Monday that the reason there were no recovery times before Monday night was that he did not want to make false promises.
“The short answer is that the scale of the storm and the level of destruction are beyond our worst nightmares,” he said. “At that time, we were unable to make any comments or promises regarding the restoration.
“I appreciate the disappointment. We are also disappointed in this … The last thing I have ever wanted to do and would like to do is make promises that we cannot keep. There’s nothing more frustrating than telling you that your power will turn on at three o’clock and not turn on before three o’clock. “
As of Tuesday morning, Hydro Ottawa said crews were focused on the following areas:
- Riverside Park and Hog’s Back
- Pauline Vanier Park
- City View, Crestview and Meadowlands Drive
- South Terrace Queensway and Ridgeview
- Bells Corners to the east and Lynwood Village
- Merivale Gardens and areas around Merivale Road (west side of Merivale Road near Hunt Club Road)
- Pineglen Annex (south of McFarlane to the corner of Merivale Road and Prince of Wales Drive)
- Cityview Skyline, Fisher Heights (south of Baseline, north of Inverness Avenue and west of Fisher Avenue)
- Fisher Glenn
- Lincoln Heights and Britain Heights
- Whitehaven, Carlingwood, Glaber Park and McKellar Heights
- Faircrest Heights, Riverview Park and Alta Vista
- Iris and Ridgeview
- Areas around Dewberry Trail, Renaud Road, Dolman Ridge Road, Anderson Road and Russell Road
- Revelstoke area
- Elmvale Acres and the Urbandale area
- Munster
SCHOOLS
Five schools remain without power, three on the Ottawa-Carlton School Board and two on the Catholic School Board in Ottawa.
The Ottawa-Carlton School Board says high schools in Maryvale, Brookfield and Bell will remain closed on Tuesday because they have no power. Students will study remotely. Castor Valley Primary School will continue with distance learning on Tuesday, but will reopen for personal learning on Wednesday.
The Catholic School Board in Ottawa says Sacred Heart and St. Monica run out of electricity. Virtual training at the Catholic Council began on Monday.
Electricity schools are operating normally.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTERS
Four community support centers remain open this week, open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day. The centers will have information related to non-life insurance, housing and financial services, requirements and processes for building and demolition permits, public health, psychosocial support and more.
In addition, each location will provide access to charging stations for electronic devices, showers and toilets.
They are at:
The Howard Darwin Centennial Arena and Hunt Club-Riverside Park will also be open until 7pm on Wednesdays.
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