Thousands in the Comox Valley are in the dark right now.
BC Hydro is reporting massive outages across the valley because of a substation fault.
A crew will be heading to an outage affecting more than 2,560 customers in the #Comox and #Courtenay area. They’ll share updates here: https://t.co/EcdRe5zcEE pic.twitter.com/tGbf7DcC9y
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) January 29, 2021
These areas are impacted:
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- East of Hobson Avenue, north of Back Road, south of Ryan Road, and west of Parry Place – affecting 2,588 customers. Crews are on their way;
- North of Piercy Road – affecting 4,126 customers. Crews are en route; and
- East of Comox Road, south of Ryan Road, and west of Skeena Drive. Crews are on their way.
A crew will be heading to an outage affecting 4,125 customers in the #Merville and #Courtenay area. They’ll share updates here: https://t.co/YyZjgiloEk pic.twitter.com/0ukO10RnHd
— BC Hydro (@bchydro) January 29, 2021
BC Hydro says the power went out at 11:33am in all those areas.
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