On Thursday morning BC Hydro was still working to restore power to the last remaining Okanagan customers knocked off the grid when the storm blew through on Tuesday.
The gusting wind brought down trees and even ripped off the roof of one Spallumcheen home.
The utility said, as of Thursday morning, roughly a dozen Okanagan customers were still without power, nearly 48 hours after the storm.
Thursday morning, BC Hydro’s website said a small number of customers in Killiney Beach, the Westside Road area, Vernon, Spallumcheen and the Lumby-Mable Lake Road area had all been without power since Tuesday.
The storm originally knocked out power to thousands in the region. The utility said it prioritizes the larger outages as it works to get customers back online.
BC Hydro said all Okanagan customers impacted by the windstorm should get their power back at some point on Thursday.
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