A wild wind storm caused damage and knocked out power to a couple of thousand local residents on Tuesday evening.
Stacey Boyes, who lives just outside of Wallaceburg in the country, said she woke up to find a section of shingles blown off the roof of her house.
“At least we know what that noise we were hearing was… just our roof ripping off,” Boyes posted to social media.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement across Chatham-Kent on Tuesday evening.
Southwesterly winds of 50 gusting to 80 km/h were expected with the possibly of reaching 90 km/h in more exposed areas.
Forecasters were expecting some minor tree and building damage, and a few local power failures.
Power ended up being knocked out for thousands of local residents.
“Finally got the hydro back,” Dawn Mudford, who lives near Tupperville, said on social media.
“That was one very long cold night. It was out from 10:30 last night until 6:30 this morning. But I imagine it was a lot longer and a lot colder for the crews that were out there trying to repair the Hydro poles in that terrible wind.”
An outage in Dresden and towards Dawn-Euphemia impacted 1,026 Hydro customers, an outage in Wallaceburg effected 1,268 customers, less than 20 customers were in the dark on Walpole Island, and a couple hundred people were effected in Chatham and in between Blenheim and Ridgetown.
As of Wednesday morning, a total of 353 customers were still without power on Walpole Island.
The high winds were set to slowly diminish by Wednesday morning.
Hydro One crews were kept busy all across southwestern Ontario on Tuesday evening and early Wednesday:
Strong winds caused more outages throughout the night. Crews continue to work hard this morning to restore power to 59,000 customers.
— Hydro One (@HydroOne) 11 January 2017
Hydro One crews are working on restoring power to 13,400 customers affected by snow and high winds across Southern Ontario. #ONstorm
— Hydro One (@HydroOne) 11 January 2017
– Submitted photo
