About 2,400 homes and businesses were without power in St. James Monday morning.
Manitoba Hydro reported there were 2,418 customers without power in two sections of St. James in between Portage Avenue and Ness Avenue.
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The cause of the outage was apparently a crow making the fatal decision to land on the power line
Power to most customers was restored by 8:45 a.m. Hydro said there may be a few customers still without power, but it’s expected to be fully restored by noon.
Some traffic lights were affected by the outage.