Two weeks after an early winter storm walloped the province, Manitoba Hydro says power is back on for all the communities that lost it.
Hydro adds that not all of its work is done yet, noting that Little Saskatchewan First Nation, Lake St. Martin First Nation, and Dauphin River are being powered by generators.
According to the Crown Corporation, workers have replaced over 4,000 wood poles over 11 days and repaired 950 km of lines. Over the course of the storm, there were 266,000 outage reports.
Premier Pallister has expressed his gratitude for hydro workers, private contractors, and others who helped with the massive cleanup effort.
The out-of-town crews from Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Minnesota began to leave the province on Wednesday.
More work needs to be done including the cleanup of broken poles and other broken equipment that crews left behind to expedite the repair timeline.
People who come across the materials are asked not to touch it, so no one mistakes more recently damaged equipment for what was left behind.
Hydro is also urging people travelling off-road to keep an eye out for the materials, as they may become a hazard to people riding ATVs, dirt bikes or snowmobiles, cross country skiers and hikers.
Livestock producers are also asked to try and keep their animals away from the broken equipment.
