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The death toll of powerful storms that have hit eastern Canada over the weekend rose to at least eight deaths, they said this Sunday (05.22.2022) the authorities.
Police in the province of Ontario announced on CTVNews the death of seven people on Saturday, as a result of falling trees and branches .
The eighth victim was a woman who drowned when her boat capsized in the Ottawa River, near Gatineau, a Quebec suburb of the federal capital.
Strong winds, with gusts of more than 140 kilometers per hour, hit eastern Canada on Saturday, the National Weather Service reported, adding that it was a rare phenomenon called “right” .
Households without electricity
“ This storm was almost 1. kilometers” long, indicated the c Environment Canada’s chief climatologist, David Phillips, told local broadcaster CFRA on Sunday.
The “right” is “a long line of very active thunderstorms or micro burst type,” he said. “Nothing can dissuade him. Just move on”.
Some 900.000 homes were left without power on Saturday night, with hundreds of thousands of homes still in darkness as of Sunday afternoon, local power providers Hydro One and Hydro-Quebec on Twitter, while trying to restore service.
The roads remain blocked with branches and debris, which will take the authorities several days to clear, they said.