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Tree smashes through house on McCurdy Road in Kelowna

A tree has smashed through the roof of a home at 335 McCurdy Road in Kelowna.

The road is blocked off in the area.

The tree also took out a power line.

It’s one of dozens of calls Fortis and BC Hydro crews were called out to in the Okanagan and Shuswap following a wicked windstorm on Tuesday.

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Dag Sharman with BC Hydro says more than 30,000 customers are without power due to more than 90 outages in the Okanagan, Shuswap, Thompson and Kootenay areas.

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Most of the outages are due to trees or branches falling on power lines.

 

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