{"id":415250,"date":"2026-01-17T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415250\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:58:14","slug":"heavy-snow-deep-cold-leaves-thousands-without-power-on-montreals-west-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415250\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snow, deep cold leaves thousands without power on Montreal&#8217;s West Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy snowfall from the day before, followed by frigid temperatures, left thousands without electricity across Quebec \u2013 with the majority of outages reported in the Montreal area around 7 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5:20 p.m., Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec said 1,622 addresses were affected, with as many as 9,440\u00a0customers off the grid at around 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, 1,204 addresses remained without power by late afternoon \u2013 with the outages in mainly on the West Island, particularly in the Dorval and Pointe-Claire areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA switch tripped. It trips when there are voltage problems in order to protect the network,\u201d explained Am\u00e9lie Vaillancourt Chartrand, spokesperson for Hydro. \u201cWe apologize for the inconvenience, especially in this cold weather. Our teams are on the ground and working hard to restore service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crews are on the ground, working to restore power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy snowfall from the day before, followed by frigid temperatures, left thousands without electricity across Quebec \u2013 with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-415250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}