#mboutage #mbstorm update 🧵: crews have restored about 670 total outages affecting over 9,350 customers, but some still remain off. (1/7) Morden area: we still need to melt ice off three sections of line. A few scattered outages that should be wrapped up by now (let us know at hydro.mb.ca/outages if you're still out). A crew is standing by tonight just in case. (2/7)

#mboutage #mbstorm 🧵 Here’s some updated estimated timelines for areas that were clobbered by the weekend’s storm. (1/7) In the Morden area, staff are dealing with icing west of Morden and high water levels east of Morden. We have three ice melts on our lines planned today. Full restoration is expected by 8 p.m. today. (2/7)

#mboutage #mbstorm As of first light today - and with calmer winds- crews are back on the road dealing with the mayhem left by the weekend’s storm. (🧵1/?) #mboutage The hit to our transmission system by wind and ice - causing galloping power lines - is over. Our task now is dealing numerous broken wood poles. hydro.mb.ca/safety/gallopi…

Alright BUCKLE UP because here come a ton of #mboutage #mbstorm updates.
1/? In the Morden area, crews have melted ice off one stretch of power lines and are working on another stretch. A third will be completed tomorrow. Four poles were broken and should be replaced tonight. About 150 customers will be out until tomorrow.
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Update on #mboutage #mbstorm: There are 1,005 active outages affecting about 15,000 customers in Parkland West and South Central MB. There are numerous broken poles — we estimate about 100 in the Dauphin area alone. 1/? Brandon, Selkirk, and Winnipeg construction crews are on the way to help, but poor road conditions and closures will hamper their ability to get to the places they need to go. 2/?

Wind and icing throughout the province has led to many outages and poor road conditions. Below is just one example of equipment damage due to the #mbstorm causing an #mboutage. (1/?) We’re working as quickly and safely as possible under the circumstances. Crews have to use the same roads as everyone else, so any shutdowns or unsafe driving conditions will cause delays to our outage response. In many cases we won’t be able to offer restoration times. (2/?)

Weather conditions in the west of the province are deteriorating and we may start seeing more outages. We’ve opened an Emergency Operations Centre in Brandon to coordinate our response. Here’s how to be prepared: hydro.mb.ca/outages/power_… #mboutage If you’re out, please let us know online at hydro.mb.ca/outages. We appreciate your patience.

A thread about wood poles: We replaced about 4,000 wood poles in the October snow storm. Now we’re entering each of these new poles in our pole inventory. See ➡️ portageonline.com/local/hydro-wo… for how we do it. The majority of our poles are red pine, lodgepole pine and western red cedar. Most of our longer poles are western red cedar from British Columbia.