{"id":680146,"date":"2026-03-25T06:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680146\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:48:16","slug":"wind-storm-knocks-power-out-for-thousands-in-nanaimo-oceanside-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680146\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind storm knocks power out for thousands in Nanaimo &#038; Oceanside | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a8cae6e1-f2ea-4f74-b104-868f31660adf-2.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Over 25,000 BC Hydro customers are without power Tuesday afternoon, the result of a strong wind storm moving through the region. Trees across wires, such as this one on Departure Bay Rd. in Nanaimo, were a cause of many outages. (Image Credit: Jade Coral)<\/p>\n<p>By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>strong winds<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 24, 2026 | 4:20 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 A strong windstorm has cut thousands of residents across the mid-Island off the grid.  <\/p>\n<p>BC Hydro reports around 40,000 customers on central and northern Vancouver Island were without electricity as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, largely due to wind storms impacting wires and trees nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The largest outage in the region encompassed the northern areas of Parksville and French Creek, where just over 3,000 properties were without power.<\/p>\n<p>A further 2,700 homes and businesses were in the dark in Qualicum Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 25,000 BC Hydro customers are without power Tuesday afternoon, the result of a strong wind storm moving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":680147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,2147,23406,23401,23407,23400,23402,23403,50,18010,23404,23405,62],"class_list":["post-680146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116288481444649129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}