Thousands without power in southern Manitoba [Video]

Thousands of people are without power Tuesday morning as widespread outages sweep southern Manitoba.

According to Manitoba Hydro, crews are responding to several outages caused by lightning and storm activity. This includes an outage in Brooklands that is impacting 1,650 customers, another by Rosenort that’s affecting over 660 customers, and an outage near Morris that’s impacting 1054 customers.

Hydro crews are focused on making repairs safely and are working to have power restored as soon as possible.

RRC Polytech cancels classes

Due to these outages, RRC Polytech has cancelled classes at its Notre Dame campus for Tuesday morning and afternoon

In a news release, the school said power was restored Tuesday afternoon, and evening classes can take place.