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Lightning strikes cause outages in city

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Lightning strikes were the cause of power outages that took place throughout the city Thursday night.

“It was lightning strikes that happened throughout the evening that caused outages,” said an Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) spokesperson.

According to NTPC there were two city wide outages throughout the evening, with the first one take place shortly before 11 p.m. The corporation did state however that certain neighbourhoods in the city may have experienced additional outages.

“There were two outages, in particular neighbourhoods there may have been slightly different numbers.” said the NTPC spokesperson. “It can vary from neighbourhood to neighbourhood as we restore power, some parts of the city may come online before other parts.”

 

Feature photo by Brendan Burke