Some 200,000 customers affected by massive power outage on Wednesday
Posted Feb 29, 2012 05:39:08 PM.
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The power should now be back on for most if not all area residents affected by a massive outage that began yesterday afternoon.
At its height, it’s estimated upwards of 200,000 customers were without electricity in Guelph, Waterloo, Elmira, Breslau and a large swath of Wellington County.
The power went out around 2:30 yesterday afternoon with the outage blamed on a Hydro One transmission line which feeds the affected areas.
Waterloo North Hydro says, at one point, 70% of its customers were affected.
As of around 8:30 last night, almost all power here had been restored, other than a few isolated pockets, which it was working on.
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