Thousands of residents across the South Cariboo experienced power outages resulting from a severe windstorm that blew across the community March 12-13.
More than 8,000 outages were reported that lasted anywhere from less than two hours to up to a couple of days.
BC Hydro spokesperson Bob Gammer said all the power was back on as of March 14, except for one remaining call.
"Some of these outages did last a long time."
The morning of March 12 saw about 2,000 residents out of power east of Watch Lake Road, but that was reduced to 1,500 by the afternoon.
There were another 3,000 customers northwest of Highway 24 and east of Highway 97 with their service out beginning at noon, which were all restored by 4:15 p.m.
The same day, areas surrounding Canim Lake and Forest Grove saw another 500 households go out around 12:20 p.m., with some in the dark until 10:30 p.m., and from 12:40 to 3:15, another 759 were without power.
On March 13, 2,021 customers were reported out of power east of Watch Lake Road until 4:15 p.m.
Another 108 homes west of Canim-Hendrix Lake Road and northeast of Eagle Creek Road were out from 9 a.m., with some outages lasting to until 7:30 p.m.
While planned outages for repairs are scheduled in some of these areas, Gammer explained those were cancelled when the windstorm hit.
He said folks should always call 1-888-POWER-ON to report outages, or if they wish to check if it is planned outages.