Hundreds still without power across Toronto after Sandy
Posted October 31, 2012 5:29 am.
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About 250 customers across the city are still without power after the remnants of Sandy lashed Toronto earlier this week, Toronto Hydro says.
Crews have been working non-stop since Monday night’s wind storm to get everyone back on the grid.
Fifteen Toronto District School Board schools were closed on Tuesday due to outages. All reopened Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the Toronto Catholic District School Board said James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School, near Keele Street and Finch Avenue, was closed due to an outage.
The utility has said all power should be restored by Thursday at the latest. At the height of the outage, about 60,000 customers were without power in Toronto.
Toronto Fire Captain David Eckerman says there were 132 calls for “wires down” between 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon to 6:30 a.m. Tuesday morning
There were 11 elevator rescues in the same time frame.
Meanwhile, Hydro One says about 6,000 customers are still without power across the province, including 3,000 in the Lambton and Chatham areas.
At the height of the storm, more than 8.2 million customers lost power in the United States — nearly a quarter of them in New York.
New York City’s subway system suffered serious damage in the storm and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it could take four to five days to get it running again.
Some 330,000 customers in Manhattan and Brooklyn may also have to wait until the end of the week before their power is restored. People in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Westchester County may have to wait until next week for electricity.
New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and New Jersey’s Newark International Airport are set to reopen at 7 a.m. Wednesday morning with limited service.
Trading also resumed Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. Hurricane Sandy claimed at least 69 lives in the Caribbean.
