More winter storms set to come through

Snowfall warnings are out for Highway 5 from Tete Jaune Cache to the Alberta border, and in the Cariboo in the Williams Lake- Quesnel area. 15-25 centimeters of snow are forecast for each of those areas.

We’re expecting some snow on the Coquihalla Highway as well, but not anywhere near as much as the other areas, maybe 5 centimeters today, another 5-10 centimeters tonight.

Kamloops is also expecting snow over the next 24 hours. We’re looking at a couple of centimeters today, a little heavier snowfall tonight.

Meanwhile, power remains out for about 1,600 customers on B.C.’s south coast eight days after the strongest wind storm in recent memory swept across the region.

Hundreds of BC Hydro workers have toiled around the clock to fix remaining outages concentrated on several southern Gulf Islands, where damage from fallen trees and toppled power poles is most extreme.

The Crown utility reports power returned to about 2,400 customers Thursday, while it says 70 crews will be working on Galiano, Pender, Mayne, Salt Spring, Gabriola, Thetis, and Saturna islands through Friday.

More than 700,000 homes and businesses were in the dark at the height of the Dec. 20 storm and Hydro says in a social-media message that crews are continually being deployed to rebuild damaged transformers, poles and other infrastructure as repairs wrap up.

by The Canadian Press/Doug Collins

More winter storms set to come through

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