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Residents of west Winnipeg were dealing with another power outage Friday after a crow crashed into and damaged a power station, said Manitoba Hydro.

This marks the second crow-related outage in as many days.

An outage Thursday that affected thousands of customers on the city’s western edge was apparently caused by a murder of crows making contact with equipment at a substation – and Friday’s issues seem to have the same cause.

Hydro said they’re hoping to have the problem resolved later Friday afternoon.

#mboutage west Winnipeg: a crow caused damage to one of our stations, but we're working on switching customers to another supply. We're hoping to have everyone back on by about 3:45 p.m. Thanks for your patience. — Manitoba Hydro (@manitobahydro) August 23, 2019

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