Montreal’s West Island was hit significantly exhausting
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Sturdy winds and thunderstorms hit a number of areas of Quebec Monday afternoon, leading to tens of hundreds of Hydro-Québec shoppers dropping energy.
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About 30,000 clients had been with out electrical energy Monday night. Montreal was the toughest hit area with 10,000 shoppers affected, significantly within the West Island, whereas the Montérégie and Laurentiens areas additionally had hundreds with out energy.
In Quebec Metropolis, Charest Blvd. was closed to visitors within the St-Roch sector after development materials was blown onto the road.
Round 9 p.m., the extreme thunderstorm warning was lifted for all of Quebec.
However Surroundings Canada was nonetheless calling for heavy rain that would attain 50 to 100 millimetres of accumulation in components of the Lanaudière, the Laurentians and Mauricie areas.
