{"id":532574,"date":"2026-03-13T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532574\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:46:09","slug":"power-outages-close-outaouais-schools-force-gatineau-water-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532574\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outages close Outaouais schools, force Gatineau water advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Power outages after Wednesday’s freezing rain closed several schools, affected drinking water in Gatineau and left tens of thousands of customers in the dark Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

A precautionary boil water advisory<\/a> is in place for about 77,000 residents in part of the Gatineau sector after a treatment plant briefly lost power. The advisory had ended for parts of Hull.<\/p>\n

Gatineau is opening the Centre sportif Robert-Rochon on rue de l’Ar\u00e9na for people to charge devices, shower and get water until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

People can also access power and water at the Bernard-Lonergan library and Centre communautaire et culturel de Buckingham, and can shower at the Centre sportif de Gatineau or Centre aquatique Paul-Pelletier.<\/p>\n

Cantley’s Centre communautaire multifonctionnel on chemin des \u00c9toiles is also open for people whose homes have lost power, said Mayor Nathalie B\u00e9lisle.<\/p>\n

As of late Thursday afternoon, fewer than 2,000 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec customers in the Outaouais had lost power, mostly in and around Gatineau and around Kazabazua. That’s down from about 30,000 earlier Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec told Radio-Canada that residents of the municipalities of Mansfield-et-Pontefract, \u00cele-du-Grand-Calumet, and Otter Lake will have to wait until Friday for power to be restored.<\/p>\n

WATCH | How the storm looked Wednesday:\"\"<\/p>\n

Dozens of flights cancelled and delayed despite storm not hitting as hard as expected<\/p>\n

Ottawa received mostly rain on Wednesday despite a freezing rain warning. The situation was a bit worse in the Ottawa Valley with schools closed. Natalia Goodwin breaks it all down.<\/p>\n

An orange-level freezing rain warning<\/a> covered the Ottawa-Gatineau area Wednesday, with about 23 millimetres of mixed precipitation at the Ottawa International Airport and about 27 millimetres in Maniwaki. <\/p>\n

All western Quebec schools were closed Wednesday.<\/p>\n

More on the closures<\/p>\n

All Centre de services scolaire des Draveurs facilities are closed Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Centre de services scolaire au C\u0153ur-des-Vall\u00e9es closures include \u00e9coles Grands-Pins, Hormisdas-Gamelin, Monseigneur Charbonneau, Quatre-Vents, Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur and Saint-Michel.<\/p>\n

The Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais school service centre has closed its pavilion Sainte-Marie in Otter Lake and the Western Qu\u00e9bec School Board has closed the Buckingham Elementary School.<\/p>\n

Outages are also closing some facilities<\/a> for local health agency CISSSO, including the Cantley, Otter Lake and Vall\u00e9e-de-la Li\u00e8vre community service centres (CLSCs).<\/p>\n

Gatineau’s Centre de services de Masson-Angers and Centre aquatique Lucien-Houle are closed.<\/p>\n

The Camp Fortune ski resort closed again Thursday, citing a lack of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-532574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532574","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=532574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}