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SaskPower posted notices citing the extreme weather conditions in rural areas, saying, in some cases, “for safety reasons the power will remain off for the night” until the wind died down.
The prolonged, widespread outages caused some SaskTel services outages in multiple communities across the province. As of 9:30 a.m., some communities had limited phone and Internet services, “and we anticipate more services may fail as back-up battery power depletes if commercial power is not restored,” the Crown corporation said in an email Thursday morning.
Services impacts included landline service down for Beechy, Herschel, Plenty, Dodsland and Lucky Lake, Warman, Meacham, Danielson (Diefenbaker Lake) were without wireless service.
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