About 66,000 Hydro One customers still without power in Ontario after ice storm [Video]

About 66,000 homes and businesses in Ontario are still without power more than a week after an ice storm caused severe damage in central and eastern parts of the province.

Hydro One says the number of customers struggling with outages has dropped as 4,800 crew members make progress on electricity restoration.

The utility says the weather is favourable for power restoration and its helicopters and drones are back in the air to help survey the damage.

It says localized flooding may slow restoration if it affects roads and severe damage continues to be discovered in new areas.

The utility says crews have identified more than 2,200 broken poles and have replaced 50 poles and rebuilt a section of the power system in the Minden area.

More than a million Ontario homes and businesses have experienced outages since the March 30 ice storm and subsequent days of high winds and heavy …