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UPDATE: 10,837 BC Hydro customers still without power because of wind storm

UPDATE:

12:12 PM: Power has been restored to 795 people across the Island and Coast.

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Over 10,830 residents on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast are without power because of a windstorm last night.

According to BC Hydro, most of the outages took place on the Sunshine Coast, with Sechelt seeing 4,201 customers without power.

Campbell River has the second-most outages with 3,146, with Powell River having 3,313 customers affected.

Duncan currently has 99 customers without power, while Courtenay has the least number of outages with 78.

Hydro adds most of the outages were caused by a windstorm, with some outages currently under investigation by crews.

More updates will come as soon as they are available.

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