Hydro Ottawa is on standby for possible power outages as Environment Canada is calling for significant freezing rain and ice pellets in Ottawa and the region. ottnews
"Similar to the December winter storm, our systems operators are monitoring the weather patterns to ensure integrity and security of Ottawa’s distribution system; field operators are prepared for outage restorations; and we’ve secured a team of on-call staff, contractors and specialists, such as arborists that are available to respond during and after hours should a situation arise," a Hydro Ottawa spokesperson said in a statement to CTV News.
"We've spent most of the day preparing for the worst-case conditions, although we're feeling pretty confident right now that we're not going to run into too many problems," he said. "At this point, we've got all of our personnel ready to go; we're just waiting on the weather now." "We've also got our on-call staff on standby. We wouldn't typically make those ahead-of-time preparations, but in this case we have good intel to tell us something is coming, so we've got those folks ready to go."
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