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Hydro Ottawa tweeted Thursday morning that it was taking down power in the Bells Corners area until about 3 p.m. to allow workers to remove trees from power lines.

The tree-removal operation will be on Stinson, Evergreen and Delta streets.

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The utility described it as an “emergency” outage and thanks customers for their “patience and understanding as the clean up continues.”

The announcement came less than 12 hours after the agency announced that, five days after 137,000 businesses and homes were without power following Friday’s devastating tornadoes, all homes in the region had power back.

Here’s our complete tornado coverage.

Mayor Jim Watson and his team have decided it’s safe to return to the election campaign although, presumably, he’ll pivot to emeregency duties if the need arises.