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Snow Storm (Blizzard) in Canada on October 15 2019 04:53 AM (UTC).


Nearly 21,000 Manitoba homes and businesses remained without power early Monday in the wake of a snowstorm that the province's Crown energy utility said had left an unprecedented amount of damage to transmission lines, towers and more, and will take days to repair."In some areas, we have more lines and poles down than standing," Manitoba Hydro chief executive officer Jay Grewal said Sunday.

"Our crews are out there working hard, 16 hours a day, doing their best to restore the power." Premier Brian Pallister declared a state of emergency early Sunday morning. The move makes it easier for Hydro crews to access private land and invokes help from neighbouring provinces and states - Ontario, Saskatchewan and Minnesota - who were being asked for workers, poles and even transmission towers. Grewal said the utility is already sourcing towers from its suppliers in Ontario. "So really the challenge is the logistics - to get that equipment to the locations that we need, given the limited access due to weather on the roads."

A blast of heavy, wet snow started pummelling much of the province Thursday and continued into Friday. More than a quarter-million customers lost power at some point as the slushy snow brought down tree limbs and power lines....

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