High winds, heavy rain leaves thousands without power across Quebec

Strong winds, heavy rain and wet snow have left thousands of Quebecers in the dark this morning.

By 3 p.m., nearly 20,000 Hydro-Québec clients were still without power, most of them in the Montérégie. Hydro-Québec says it has 140 crews working to restore electricity to its clients.

The region southeast of Montreal has 26,000 outages, the bulk of which are in the Brome-Missisquoi regional county municipality.

Earlier Sunday there were nearly 50,000 clients without power.

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