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UPDATE: 4,118 BC Hydro Customers without power because of windstorm

UPDATE:

9:15 AM: 1,569 customers on the Island and Coast have seen their power restored, according to BC Hydro.

11:30 AM: Another 241 people have gotten their power back.

1:45 PM: According to BC Hydro, 284 customers have their power back as of this afternoon.

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4,118 BC Hydro customers are without power on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast because of a windstorm. 

According to BC Hydro, a majority of the outages took place on Vancouver Island, with Courtenay having the most with 2,418 people without power.

Campbell River has 1,107 are without power in Campbell River, where between Campbell River and Powell River, another 516 people lost power. 

Powell River has 41 customers with no power, with Sechelt seeing the least outages with 36.

While most of the outages were caused by the storm, Hydro adds that other outages were caused by a tree down across their wires, or by a wire being down.

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