Storm knocks power out in many areas of Red Deer

RED DEER – If your area of Red Deer did not lose power at some point last night, you were one of the lucky ones.

At various times throughout the evening, the power went out in parts of the Downtown area, Michener, Clearview, Deer Park, Rosedale, Riverside Meadows, Eastview, Grandview, Normandeau and Kentwood neighbourhoods.

City of Red Deer EL&P Manager Jim Jorgenson describes the damage crews had to deal with.

“Last night, right around 9:30, the storm picked up and we started experiencing some outages, lots of trees down on lines. That interrupted power to quite a few customers. I would say we were somewhere around 2,000 customers impacted at various times,” he says. Crews responded and started to get things sorted out around midnight with some power restored, and largely everything was wrapped up by about 5 a.m. this morning.”