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The recent heavy snowstorm resulted in numerous power outages across the province.
According to SaskPower, the outages that occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday were caused by damage to several transmission lines the high winds brought by the high winds from the winter storm.
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The southeast corner of the province was hit with an outage on Tuesday morning and early afternoon, which affected approximately 10,000 customers.
Also on Tuesday morning, SaskPower said the Warman/Osler area suffered from an outage affecting roughly 2,400 people.
On Wednesday, areas north and east of Regina were affected by an outage, impacting about 15,000 people.
“Wind can cause outages by causing lines to break, often as a result of galloping. Line galloping is where ice builds up on one side of a line causing it to jump in the wind,” read a SaskPower email.
“SaskPower crews work to restore power as quickly as possible, while maintaining the safety of our crews. Activities using bucket trucks, for example, are not conducted when wind speeds are deemed unsafe. SaskPower appreciates our customers’ patience as we worked to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.”
Speaking with Discover Weyburn, SaskPower spokesperson Joel Cherry said the outage in the southeast was caused by wind damage to a shield wire.
“So if you can picture what a transmission structure looks like, they’re usually the really tall two-pole structures. Along the top of those lines, they have a non-energized wire called a shield wire and that’s there to basically serve as a lightning rod. So it protects our structures from lightning during the summer,” Cherry told Discover Weyburn.
“In this case, one of these wires broke, and so that shield wire was hanging down and came into contact with the energized part of the line, which caused it to trip off.”
Cherry added that crews worked to ensure that power came back on in a reasonable time.
– With files from DiscoverWeyburn.com’s Scott Boulton
