Regina power outage affects 26,000 customers

A power outage Friday afternoon in the Queen City had about 26,000 customers in the dark at its height.

As of 4 p.m., SaskPower was still trying to find the cause of the outage, though crews were seeing a lot of “line gallop” — where lines are bouncing and contacting each other in the wind, which is usually made worse where there’s wet and heavy precipitation, like the snow that had been falling in Regina on Friday.

Areas under the outage were slowly being brought back on line by SaskPower’s control centre routing power from other areas, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

At its worst, the SaskPower outage map showed the outage stretching from 9th Ave N. in Regina’s northwest down to the southern edge of the city, and from the western edge of the city, east to Winnipeg and Broad Street South.

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