In Sainte-Adèle in the Laurentians, two-thirds of residents are still without electricity, three days after the storm that shook the province this weekend.
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“City Hall still has no electricity, so many are set up in the community center [powered by a generator] to telecommute or charge their phones. We still don’t have a shower, unfortunately,” said the mayor of Sainte-Adèle, Michèle Lalonde, in an interview with Mario Dumont on Tuesday morning.
The roads of the city are now crossable, but the mayor calls for the vigilance of the citizens. However, she notices an immense solidarity of the people of her city to put everything back in place. “Everyone is out there in the field doing 16-hour shifts very often. I saw workers coming back to take a few hours off because they were exhausted,” she said.
Ms. Lalonde, however, deplores the lack of communication with Hydro-Québec. “We don’t see them,” she remarked. “They told us everyone should be back online by the end of the week, but we don’t expect to have power until Saturday,” she added. She hopes the fire station and city hall will have power soon.
