UPDATE:
12:12 PM: Power has been restored to 795 people across the Island and Coast.
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Over 10,830 residents on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast are without power because of a windstorm last night.
According to BC Hydro, most of the outages took place on the Sunshine Coast, with Sechelt seeing 4,201 customers without power.
Campbell River has the second-most outages with 3,146, with Powell River having 3,313 customers affected.
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Duncan currently has 99 customers without power, while Courtenay has the least number of outages with 78.
Hydro adds most of the outages were caused by a windstorm, with some outages currently under investigation by crews.
More updates will come as soon as they are available.