Thousands of Vancouver Island residents and businesses were without power Tuesday morning as the latest snowstorm downed transmission lines across the region.
More than 16,000 BC Hydro customers were without electricity after 9 a.m., with the largest outages affecting customers in Greater Victoria and the southern Gulf Islands.
Approximately 550 Parksville, B.C., residents were also in the dark and BC Hydro says crews are still investigating the outage there. The power problems began Tuesday morning as southwestern B.C. residents awoke to heavy snow covering Greater Victoria, eastern Vancouver Island and much of Greater Vancouver.in the Victoria regional system and across the Cowichan Valley due to the icy roads, but was aiming to get buses back on the streets as soon as conditions improved.
Several morning flights out of Victoria and Vancouver were cancelled or delayed. Travellers were advised to check with their airline or the latest flight information before heading to the airport.
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