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• Ontario and Quebec are still experiencing power outages.
• by train The service will continue Along the main trail after the storm delays.
• Sunwing says repatriation flights for stranded Canadians will continue through Friday.
• Power of New Brunswick Restores power to most customers.
• Communities on the Southwest Coast BC in flood protection.
• Buffalo, New York braces for more snow as police roll out to enforce a travel ban.

Thousands of people in Canada were left without power or faced with travel headaches on Tuesday, days after severe winter storms just before Christmas.

Storms have disrupted power grids and travel plans over the past four days.

As the number of power outages dropped dramatically, tens of thousands of people were left without power on Tuesday while crews continued to work to repair lines damaged by strong winds and downed trees, complicated by heavy snowfalls that cut access to certain locations prevented.

Quebec remains the largest hotspot with around 32,000 households and businesses without power. Hydro-Québec has stated that the Capitale-Nationale, the Laurentians and the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean are part of it the most affected areas.

Hydro-Quebec said it can’t give all customers a recovery plan because trees and other objects are preventing crews from reaching areas that are already difficult to access. The company said it was using about 1,200 hydraulic crews from across the province and 10 helicopters to clear the tracks and carry out the repair work.

Around 16,000 households and companies remain without electricity in OntarioThe vast majority of them are in the Georgian Bay region north of Toronto, Hydro One said as the fourth day of recovery from the storm continued.

Another hard-hit area was Fort Erie, Ontario, where about 4,300 customers were still in the dark as of Monday, with power outages caused by downed trees and smashed telephone poles. Power has been restored to more than 4,000 affected customers, according to a tweet from Canada’s Niagara Power on Monday night.

And the Niagara region, where Fort Erie is located, declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

Chatham-Kent, about 300 kilometers west of the shore of Lake Erie, also declared a state of emergency on Saturday due to heavy snowfall and high winds, but I raised it around 2:00 p.m. ET on Monday.

There were dozens of people Spent the night at Walmart in Chatham-Kent last Friday after a snowstorm closed roads around them.

A Hydro One spokeswoman said it hopes to have power restored to the most affected customers by the end of the day – and to hard-to-reach bungalows “in the coming days”.

She said weather conditions prevented helicopters and boats from reaching the water to access seasonal properties on the islands or simply access the water.

As of Tuesday morning, New Brunswick Power reconnected almost everyone who had lost power. I reported 400 customers while still in the dark.

The toll of the American storm mounts

South of the border, the Buffalo, New York storm braced for fresh snow Tuesday while struggling to recover from an epic snowstorm that killed at least 34 people in the area.

Mayor Byron Brown’s office on Tuesday announced seven more storm-related deaths, bringing the total to 27 in Buffalo and at least seven deaths in the suburbs.

State police and the military were dispatched to enforce the driving ban on the snowy roads. County Executive Mark Boloncars said police will be stationed at Buffalo entrances and at key intersections.

The US National Weather Service has forecast up to two inches of snowfall in Erie County, which includes Buffalo.

Although this is a relatively small amount, it is expected to hamper the distance of 1.25m of snowfall from Christmas Eve in some places. Officials said the city’s airport will be closed through Wednesday morning.

The rest of the United States is also still suffering from the severe storm, with at least two dozen more deaths reported elsewhere in the country and power outages in communities from Maine to Washington state. Officials said Monday the storm killed 57 people, more than half of them in western New York.

In British Columbia, crews have made progress restoring power after a west coast winter. BC Hydro said fewer than 1,000 customers, mostly in the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, were left without power, a significant decrease from the height of the storm.

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Despite BC Hydro’s progress, residents of southwest BC braced for the possibility of flooding on Tuesday.

Rain warnings and a flood watch remained in effect Tuesday as two back-to-back storms are expected to bring 60 to 120mm of rain late Tuesday night, according to Environment Canada.

The agency said coastal flooding near the Georgia Strait was expected during Tuesday morning’s high tide. Vancouver braced for high risk of flooding due to storm surge, strong winds and high tide.

The province has urged people to stay away from fast-moving rivers and unstable banks.

British Columbians are still dealing with the aftermath of a Fatal bus accident on the Autobahn on Christmas night what police suspect was caused by the freezing cold weather. Four people were killed and dozens injured when the Ibos crashed east of Merritt near the exit to Loon Lake.

Trains, planes and luggage

Hundreds of Canadians also attended blocked for several days After Sunwing in Mexico canceled their return flights, many accused the airline of “abandoning” them by not rebooking them on new flights or failing to disclose where they were while they awaited departure.

“A number of repatriation flights continue to be impacted by delays as severe weather conditions across Canada leave crew and aircraft homeless,” the company said in a statement released Tuesday.

Sunwing said it was working “around the clock” to get passengers home.

“We have conducted two salvage flights so far this week, planned eight more salvage flights scheduled through December 30, 2022, and are currently finalizing salvage plans for our remaining passengers at destination,” the company said. .

For southbound flights, Sunwing announced Monday afternoon via Twitter that the baggage carousel in Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport is not working and therefore cannot guarantee that customers’ checked bags will accompany them on a flight out of Toronto.

The airport tweeted early Tuesday that the baggage carousel in question was working again.

However, due to high passenger numbers and staffing issues, the airport still faces delays getting passengers to their bags, Greater Toronto Area spokesman Tory Gass told CBC News Airports Authority on Tuesday.

“We brought in as much staff as we could from other parts of the airport to help the airlines disembark and get more bodies into the baggage halls,” Gass said.

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Company spokesman Tory Gass said the Greater Toronto Airports Authority is working “behind the scenes” to help airlines deal with delays and disruptions caused by winter storms.

For train travelers, Via Rail planned to resume running trains from Toronto to Ottawa and from Ottawa to Montreal on Tuesday. The FIA ​​said Toronto-Montreal flights are operating on a “modified schedule” but warned of potential delays.

Service was canceled on Christmas Day and Boxing Day due to the derailment of a CN train near Grafton, Ontario on Saturday. The crash blocked a section of line and left passengers stranded on trains for hours over the weekend.