After a wicked windstorm overnight, thousands of B.C. Hydro customers were without power on Thursday morning.
B.C. Hydro reported more than 800 customers without power on Saltspring Island reaching into Pender Island, about 60 customers without power in Duncan and a handful left without power in Saanich.
Most of those have been restored with pockets of outages remaining in Duncan, Saanich and a handful in North Saanich.
Up-Island communities have been hit harder, with more than 2,000 without power in Ladysmith and North Cowichan, and hundreds of customers in the dark in Nanaimo, Bowser, Port Alberni and Courtenay.
In most cases, the outages are under investigation. In some cases, trees down across wires have been cited by B.C. Hydro as the cause.
Power was expected to be restored by late morning, with the exception of Port Alberni where power was forecast to return by noon.
