More than 35,000 B.C. Hydro customers on the Island were without power as of Monday evening.
Weather and road conditions were making it tough for crews to get out, B.C. Hydro said. “All available resources will continue to work throughout the day and into the night to make repairs and restore power.”
The utility said Duncan, the Gulf Islands, Greater Victoria and Nanaimo were among the hardest hit areas.
In Central Saanich, police said there were several crashes due to slippery roads, and RCMP closed some roads in Nanaimo.
Nanaimo RCMP urged people not to go out unless their vehicles were snow-ready.
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B.C. Hydro crews worked through the night to restore power to thousands of customers in southern B.C. after a wicked snow and windstorm hit the coast on the first day of winter.
Hydro was reporting as many as 90,000 customers were in the dark at the peak of the storm, but crews had whittled that back to about 20,000 across Vancouver Island and the inner South Coast by Tuesday afternoon.
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