SaskPower says the storm Wednesday knocked out power as far north as Nipawin and as far south as Maple Creek. Because conditions were considered unsafe for crews to work in, many communities were without power through Wednesday night. As of about six o’clock Thursday night, there were about 321 outages leaving 37,000 customers without power. That was down from the previous 78,000. The expectation was that several communities would remain without power last night as well. Weather conditions are improving Friday morning, and crews expect to make great progress restoring power. As of 5:30 a.m., there were 4,073 customers without power.  SaskPower says their outage centre fielded about 63 thousand calls between 10:00 a.m. Wednesday and 4:00 p.m. Thursday.

As of about five o’clock Thursday afternoon, SaskTel was anticipating storm-related service outages would continue into Friday due to the extended commercial power outage, and lack of safe road conditions.
The plan was, where it was safe to do so, to continue connecting generators to the network sites and to high priority wireless sites to ensure services continue to operate normally. However, it was anticipated there would be more service failures as back-up batteries fail if they were unable to connect generators.