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There are a few trees down in Kinsmen Park and some up by the city cemetery, but Prince Albert city properties escaped Monday night’s storm relatively unscathed.
“We’re very fortunate, when you take a look at the hailstones in Waskesiu, we are very fortunate that that didn’t hit the city,” Colin Innes, the director of public works for the City of Prince Albert.
It is fortunate because there wasn’t any damage to the water treatment plant or any other city facility he said.
The main activity for today is getting things cleaned up, picking up branches and clearing trees, Innes said.
“Let’s hope that tonight it goes easy on us.”
People in Prince Albert and the surrounding area are waking up to a mess after a storm thundered through the city, Monday night.
Power in the city was knocked out around 1 a.m. just briefly in some areas, whereas in others it was out for about 2.5 hours.
Wind gusts were more 60 kilometres per hour which knocked down trees, branches and may have been responsible for starting a power line on fire.
The heavy rain and lightning was part of a second storm system that came through the province.
At the Ambrose Trailer Court at Emma Lake, branches and trees are down and the lights are still out.
“It even shook some trailers,” said Marlene Lavoie, a summertime resident of the court, about the storm ripping through last night.
“It just about cleared out patches of trees. The power has been out since about 12:30 (a.m.) and the trees are all fallen along the road on the power line.
“I could hear the siding ripping off the trailer, we were scared, it wasn’t shaking, but we were scared. We had the kids and grandkids and we just huddled up in one room.”
Power at Christopher Lake has been out nearly eight hours now and the high winds last night sent at least one family to the basement for safety as trees came down on vehicles.
The outages stretched across the province leaving thousands of SaskPower customers in the dark and SaskPower crews working to get the lights back on from Lloydminster to Nipawin.
“The storm caused a lot of problems for our system across the north central area,” said James Parker, spokesman for SaskPower.
“We had a lot of people working through the night … we hope to restore power to everyone today.”
It could take a little longer depending whether or not there are major problems discovered while crews are working, he said.
“We are just asking for people’s patience.”
People without electricity can contact SaskPower at (306) 310-2220.
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