Many customers, however, could be without electricity until the weekend, and Toronto Hydro CEO Anthony Haines said the situation could get worse. "We're three days into this and tens of thousands of people who didn't have power - hundreds of thousands of people who didn't have power - have power now and the progress has been remarkable." On Tuesday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne reacted to criticism that power wasn't being restored quickly enough by saying: "So far the progress we're seeing in affected communities is very encouraging," "Crews will then respond to more localized outages, which affect streets or individual homes." "We've restored all critical customers (TTC, water services etc), and crews continue to repair priority feeders, which will restore the largest groups of customers at one time," Toronto Hydro said in a Christmas morning release. Early Christmas morning, Toronto Hydro reported about 70,000 people were still without power, compared to 300,000 at the height of the outage. In southern Ontario, close to 150,000 customers remained without power as late as Tuesday morning. Thousands of Canadians are awakening to a dark Christmas, days after a brutal storm that hit southern Ontario and Quebec and is pounding the Maritimes.
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