Several thousand without power in Montreal after storm blasts through

A severe thunderstorms that whipped through Montreal on Monday afternoon left several thousand Hydro-Québec customers without power.
About 8,500 customers on the island of Montreal were affected, while another 2,100 customers in Laval were in the dark.
The utility’s website has a full list of outages, with most of the power expected to be back on this evening. As of 6 p.m., less than 4,000 customers were still without power in Montreal.
There have also been reports of some localized