Thousands of British Columbians woke up this morning with no power after a windstorm careened its way through the Lower Mainland.
In Abbotsford, Maple Ridge, Langley and Surrey a total of 15,175 residents were affected by the outages according to BC Hydro’s outage list. Two major outages in Burnaby left 1,130 people without power and in Chilliwack 6,553 were also affected with a smattering of smaller outages.
Peak wind gusts for southern BC overnight. Winds have diminished but power outages still linger. #BCstorm #BCwind pic.twitter.com/xTEkHM5QcM
— Matt Grinter (@matt_grinter) January 13, 2021
According to the Weather Network, 91 km/h winds were recorded at Vancouver's International Airport, making it the sixth strongest January wind gust on record. The winds near YVR were responsible for outages in Delta/Richmond which affected 326 people with smaller outages also reported.
Most of Richmond downtown power is out #BCStorm pic.twitter.com/Sr3AE47Taw
— Jaxon Viaan (@JaxonViaan) January 13, 2021
To find more storm updates on social media use the #BCstorm.
