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City averages nine hours of outages

It might seem like Salmon Arm has a lot of power failures, if you live in Vancouver or Burnaby – but not so much if you hail from Valemount

It might seem like Salmon Arm has a lot of power failures, if you live in Vancouver or Burnaby – but not so much if you hail from Valemount.

Statistics from BC Hydro shows the Salmon Arm district as having an average of 9.1 hours per year of time without power.

This places the city at number 17 on the list of 50 districts in B.C.

Valemount had the most time without power at an average of 36.3 hours per year, while Vancouver and Burnaby had the least with only 1.1 hours without power. Kamloops has an average of 4.3 hours of outages, while Vernon averages 3.6 hours without power. The statistics were compiled based on the most recent data available, which includes up to 2014, and does not include the recent Lower Mainland power outages due to the windstorm.

The numbers can be of little comfort when it is your power out.

A collision between a vehicle and a power-pole led to a Wednesday night outage that left more than 1,400 customers without power in parts of Raven, Canoe, Tappen and Sunnybrae.

BC Hydro reports customers in those areas lost power around 8:45 p.m.

Power was restored about two hours later, close to 11 p.m..