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By Victor Kaisar

Power Outage

UPDATE: Some BC Hydro customers to be without power overnight after Saturday windstorm

May 31, 2025 | 3:22 PM

SHUSWAP — (UPDATE 11:00 p.m.): Just over a thousand BC Hydro customers in the Thompson/Shuswap remain in the dark Saturday (May 31), as crews continue to work to restore power.

In an update at 10:23 p.m., BC Hydro said the outages were caused by a strong windstorm that made its way across the Southern Interior.

As of publishing, there were 1,181 BC Hydro customers in the Thompson/Shuswap without power. Another 4,019 in the Okanagan and the Kootenays were without power.

“Our crews are working through the evening to restore power as quickly as they can in places like Vernon, West Kelowna, Revelstoke, Golden, Salmon Arm, and Nakusp,” the BC Hydro statement said.

“Crews from the Fraser Valley have also arrived to help restore power.”

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It also said updates for individual outages, including estimated restoration times, will be posted as it becomes available.

“Some customers in the impacted areas may be without power overnight,” the statement added.

At the peak of the outages Saturday, there were several thousand BC Hydro customers across the BC Interior who were without power. That included a large swath of the North Shuswap, as well as the people in the Eagle Bay area and around the City of Salmon Arm.

Another nearly 2,000 people were also without power in the Merritt area on Saturday.

Environment Canada had been forecasting wind gusts between 50 km/hr and 70 km/hr in the Kamloops area Saturday, and its calling for the winds to gradually taper off after midnight.

You can find the latest updates on the power outages here.