Thousands of people are without power Monday 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 on Tuesday morning.
In a news release, the school said it expects in-person classes to resume beginning at noon Tuesday and is waiting for Manitoba Hydro to confirm when the power will return.
The Notre Dame campus remains open. Anyone who is already on campus is asked not to use the elevator. Staff at the campus should work with their managers to determine work arrangements.
All other RRC Polytech campuses are unaffected and will maintain regular operations.