Toronto Hydro says power has been restored to affected customers in the central Etobicoke area as many have been forced to stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Police say a BMW was going too fast, missed making a corner and went off Elk Road before colliding with a power pole on Tuesday night.

City of Saskatoon officials said affected customers were switched to a temporary power supply where possible.

The showers and thunderstorms are expected to move through the region Thursday evening and continue overnight in some areas.

There are also pockets of outages throughout the south-end including more than 1,700 on the Lambeth area,

Last October, about a dozen homeowners in a Clayton Park neighbourhood experienced a power surge that caused significant damage to many appliances in their homes.

The vehicle incident caused thousands of people to lose power in the Hedley, Keremeos and Princeton areas. 

Police were trying to determine whether the U-Haul and its contents belong to the driver or if the truck was stolen.

Police say the accident happened on Young Street at around 3:30 a.m. and that the power pole was sheared off at its base.

The roads are going to be slick in southern Quebec this weekend as a blast of winter weather is expected to descend on the region starting Saturday.