Manitoba Hydro started receiving outage reports from the massive winter storm that hit the Parkland on Sunday, April 24th. Despite massive amounts of damage to poles and lines in the area, Hydro was able to restore power to everyone in the area by 10 pm on Wednesday, April 27th.
According to Media Relations Officer Bruce Owen, this is the worst storm the province has seen since the fall of 2019, and because of that storm, they were more prepared this time around.
The heavy wet snow glued itself to power lines and so if you can imagine a power line has a diameter of about an inch and a half, but the diameter became almost three and a half inches with that coating of ice.
A wire in the Dauphin area during the storm, from Manitoba Hydro Twitter.
According to Owen, another major issue that Hydro had was accessing all of the downed and broken poles.
Another challenge was getting to it, there were areas where municipal equipment had to get out in front of us to plow roads.
Owen said there isn't lingering damage that will be around because of the storm, and all poles that were damaged have been replaced.
