High winds collapsed trees on Southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands Wednesday night, knocking out power lines across several areas.
BC Hydro reported numerous outages in over a dozen different municipalities, including Saanich, Langford, and Duncan, and across Gulf Islands including Mayne and Galiano.
Falling trees were blamed for power blackouts starting at around 5 p.m. in the evening all the way until 5 a.m. Thursday morning.
Throughout the windy night, over 12,000 customers lost power for reasons related to trees falling onto power lines.
By 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning the vast majority of outages had been restored.
