Many remain without electricity as Guam recovers from storm

Many remain without electricity as Guam recovers from storm

HONOLULU — About a week after Typhoon Mawar tore through Guam as the strongest typhoon to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in over two decades, most of the island remained without electricity and the governor appealed for patience during a recovery process expected to take at least a month. Even though Mawar caused no deaths or catastrophic destruction, officials said that as of Wednesday only 28% of power had been restored on the oppressively hot…

An equipment failure caused an electrical outage in Baie-Comeau, which deprived 6,274 customers of electricity on June 1. The outage started around 10:17am in the Mingan sector. According to Hydro-Québec's Info-service, the analysis of the required work is in progress. “It's an outage related to the Laflèche substation. We will know more after the inspection. The teams are on their way to the position,” says Cathy Hamel, Counsellor — Community R…