{"id":128714,"date":"2022-12-26T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=128714"},"modified":"2022-12-26T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:15:46","slug":"thousands-of-people-without-power-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/thousands-of-people-without-power-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of people without power in the region on Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As temperatures dropped overnight, there are about 9,000 homes without power in the Huntsville region (including Lake of Bays) and approximately 8,000 homes without power in the Bracebridge area this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hydro One has called in reinforcements but the biggest issue is access, explained Hydro One spokesperson Tiziana Baccega Rosa. She said road closures and roads that have not been plowed are making it impossible for Hydro One crews to get in. &#8220;We can&#8217;t actually get to people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said as roads are plowed and access becomes available, power restoration will become easier. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t about resources. We&#8217;ve got every available resource and we continue to, as the areas get cleaned up, send resources over to Central [region]. We&#8217;ve had people staging in Barrie last night overnight so that the minute we can get in, they are there,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Municipal plows are working around the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur crews have been absolutely amazing, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart for continuing to work through these challenging and difficult conditions, away from their families and friends, during this Holiday season,\u201d  Tarmo Uukkivi, director of operations and protective service for the Town of Huntsville<a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/a-message-from-the-towns-department-of-public-works\/\"> <\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/a-message-from-the-towns-department-of-public-works\/\">in a media release yesterday<\/a>.<\/span> The release stated that due to the volume of snow, it will likely take 72 to 96 hours to return to normal snow maintenance services.&nbsp;&nbsp;Residents were advised to exercise extreme caution and only travel if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, December 26 at 5:35 a.m., Environment Canada issued a weather advisory and warned of a continuation of hazardous driving conditions as additional snowfall amounts of up to 5 cm are expected by later this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As temperatures dropped overnight, there are about 9,000 homes without power in the Huntsville region (including Lake of Bays) and approximately 8,000 homes without power in the Bracebridge area this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":128715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3180],"class_list":["post-128714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-power-outage"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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