{"id":39070,"date":"2015-01-19T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39070"},"modified":"2015-01-19T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:44:56","slug":"harsh-weather-heavy-winds-lead-to-power-outages-across-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/19\/harsh-weather-heavy-winds-lead-to-power-outages-across-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsh weather, heavy winds lead to power outages across British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34133\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Harsh weather and strong winds knocked out power in thousands of homes across British Columbia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A BC Hydro spokeswoman says 30,000 customers reported an outage at the height of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Mora Scott says powerful winds caused trees and branches to fall on hydro wires, but crews worked hard throughout the day to restore power as swiftly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest-hit area was southern Vancouver Island, including the communities of Saanich, Colwood, Duncan, Langford and parts of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast also suffered mass power outages.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada issued rainfall warnings earlier Sunday for Howe Sound and the Fraser Valley, with more than 50 millimetres of rain expected in both regions.<\/p>\n<p>A special weather statement was also issued for southern B.C., with as much as 30 centimetres of snow expected to fall on the Coquihalla Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Harsh weather and strong winds knocked out power in thousands of homes across British Columbia on Sunday. A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}