Residents of Tilbury and the surrounding area are being reminded of a Hydro One planned power outage that will affect the Town of Tilbury on Sunday, October 6 from 7am-2pm. The outage will last for approximately seven hours.
An alternate date is scheduled for October 20th with the same times.
Hydro One has advised that this outage is necessary to perform system upgrades. They will be installing a switch so that future outages have no impact on the Tilbury Station, effectively reducing the number of outages affecting Tilbury in the future.
Entegrus customers can expect calls from an interactive voice calling system. If you have not received a call yet, please email customerservice@entegrus.com with your updated contact information. To receive these notifications vis text, you can visit Entegrus.com/SMS.
What can you do to prepare your home in advance?
- Assemble an emergency preparedness kit
- Ensure cell phones are fully charged ahead of the outage
- Plug your electronics into a surge protector
- Maintain a colder food storage temperature as long as possible to protect your food supply by turning your fridge to 40*F/4*C and your freezer to 0*F/-18*C.
Planning for an extended outage: https://www.entegrus.com/extendedoutage
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Eric Labadie
Manager, Corporate Communications
Municipality of Chatham-Kent
ericl@chatham-kent.ca
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