{"id":35483,"date":"2026-05-20T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crews-restore-power-to-storm-battered-ontario-as-tornado-teams-probe-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:34:16","slug":"crews-restore-power-to-storm-battered-ontario-as-tornado-teams-probe-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crews-restore-power-to-storm-battered-ontario-as-tornado-teams-probe-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews restore power to storm-battered Ontario as tornado teams probe damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HUNTSVILLE, ONT. \u2014 Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of Ontario customers after powerful thunderstorms downed trees and prompted tornado warnings.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro One says about 2,700 customers are without power as of 8:30 a.m. in southwestern Ontario after last night\u2019s storm.<\/p>\n<p>Another 3,000 customers were also in the dark in central Ontario, the focus of a powerful Monday storm.<\/p>\n<p>Storm researchers are in the areas of London and Huntsville to investigate reports of tornadoes and high winds after consecutive days of severe storms.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University say no tornadoes have yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Huntsville say a 19-year-old died after he was struck by a falling tree during that storm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92026 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2026\/05\/crews-restore-power-to-storm-battered-ontario-as-tornado-teams-probe-damage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] HUNTSVILLE, ONT. \u2014 Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of Ontario customers after powerful thunderstorms downed &#8230; <a title=\"Crews restore power to storm-battered Ontario as tornado teams probe damage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/crews-restore-power-to-storm-battered-ontario-as-tornado-teams-probe-damage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Crews restore power to storm-battered Ontario as tornado teams probe damage\">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-35483","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\/35483","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=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}