SaskPower is asking Saskatchewan residents to minimize electrical use as it works to restore power to areas affected by storms over the last two days.
About 50,000 people were without service midday today and even as crews managed to restore service, other areas were hit due to continued high winds.
Customers in the Prince Albert and La Ronge areas should be prepared for rolling outages of four to six hours in length this afternoon in those areas as well as Shellbrook, Debden and Big River.
Outages in Sturgis, Preeceville, Veregin, Stenen, Pelly and Norquay should be fixed later this afternoon while service to Swift Current should be fixed by the evening.
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Regina and Saskatoon continue to experience outages due to trees falling on power lines.
SaskPower said it is also aware of outages in Wynyard and Hudson Bay but had no estimated time of repair as of 3 p.m. There were minor outages in many rural areas.
The crown corporation said if customers turn off lights or unplug devices that aren’t needed, it would help crews working to fix the problems.
Meanwhile, strong winds ripped the roof off a grocery store in Humboldt today, toppled trees and were blamed for causing a semi to flip over on the Trans-Canada Highway at the overpass near Belle Plaine, Sask.
