{"id":29898,"date":"2025-04-08T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/more-than-34000-customers-remain-powerless-after-spring-storm-tears-through-ontario\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:25:06","slug":"more-than-34000-customers-remain-powerless-after-spring-storm-tears-through-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/more-than-34000-customers-remain-powerless-after-spring-storm-tears-through-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 34,000 customers remain powerless after spring storm tears through Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MINDEN, ONT. \u2014 Just over 35,000 customers still don\u2019t have power back in Ontario more than a week after a storm tore through the central and eastern parts of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Among the hardest hit communities were those surrounding Peterborough and Orillia.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro One says over 4,800 crews are working to restore service, with favourable weather in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The utility\u2019s website also says crews have identified more than 2,300 broken poles in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>The March 30 ice storm saw more than a million homes and businesses in Ontario experience power outages.<\/p>\n<p>The following days brought strong winds and heavy rain, which affected crews\u2019 ability to do restoration work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2025\/04\/more-than-34000-customers-remain-powerless-after-spring-storm-tears-through-ontario\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MINDEN, ONT. \u2014 Just over 35,000 customers still don\u2019t have power back in Ontario more than a week after &#8230; <a title=\"More than 34,000 customers remain powerless after spring storm tears through Ontario\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/more-than-34000-customers-remain-powerless-after-spring-storm-tears-through-ontario\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about More than 34,000 customers remain powerless after spring storm tears through Ontario\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-29898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}