Power restored in Longueuil after 60,000 faced outage

Electricity has been restored to some 60,000 homes after a brief power outage mostly affecting Longueuil on Tuesday.

As of 1:45 p.m., only 337 addresses in the South Shore city were still in the dark, after as many as 60,000 were affected less than an hour earlier.

A Hydro-Quebec spokesperson confirmed that a protective mechanism was triggered at the electrical substation in Brossard, adding “everything is back to normal.”

Across the province, a total of 5,702 homes are currently affected by outages.

1:35 p.m.

Nearly 60,000 addresses in Longueuil are experiencing a power outage on Tuesday afternoon.

As of 1:35 p.m. Hydro-Quebec is reporting 59,403 homes in Longueuil are in the dark, as cold temperatures hover over the region.

The current temperature in Longeuil is -10C, but it feels like -13C.

See the outages map here