{"id":730661,"date":"2026-06-11T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:21:15","slug":"power-restored-to-thousands-of-customers-following-severe-weather-manitoba-hydro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730661\/","title":{"rendered":"Power restored to thousands of customers following severe weather: Manitoba Hydro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of Manitobans have reportedly had their power restored following severe weather earlier in the week, according to Manitoba Hydro.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday morning, around 1,400 Manitoba Hydro customers were without power; however, as the day has gone on, the number of customers affected has changed throughout the day due mainly to the need for brief planned outages as part of restoration efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Some customers have reportedly been without power for an extended period of time, and crews are working to have most storm-related outages restored by the end of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManitoba Hydro is asking customers who may have damage to the overhead service mast on their property to contact a licensed electrician as soon as possible to make repairs, which will allow the utility to complete re-energizing their property,\u201d read a statement from the company, while adding that customers should update their contact information to ensure they can be reached with information or advisories.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of Manitobans have reportedly had their power restored following severe weather earlier in the week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-730661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730661","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=730661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}