Power outages in Ottawa affect more than 30,000 customers
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According to the outage map on the Hydro Ottawa website, around 22,389 customers were affected by power outages in an area spanning from Bayshore all the way to Westboro and Carlington.
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More than 4,300 customers in an area stretching from Centrepointe to the edges of Barrhaven West were also affected by power outages.
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Hundreds of customers in Hintonburg, Billings Bridge and Vanier were affected as well.
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The causes of the outages were still under investigation as of 2:34 p.m., according to the outage map.
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Hydro Ottawa said in a social media post at 2:10 p.m. that it was aware of the outages and crews were trying to restore power to the affected areas.
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At 2:27 p.m., the company said power was restored to customers impacted by the outages in the Carling, Richmond and Nepean wards. The cause of the outage was 'a loss of power from the provincial grid.'
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The outages came as Ottawans tried to stay cool in the middle of a heat wave. Daytime temperatures peaked at 31 C on Sunday and are expected to dip to 20 C at night. A thunderstorm warning was also issued by Environment Canada earlier in the day.
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