High winds on Friday were the likely cause of transmission circuit failure that led to a power outage for 329 customers in Hixon.
It was the largest of a handful of outages around the city as gusts as high as 80 km/h swept through the region.
"Most of the time our transmission circuits are far enough away from trees," BC Hydro spokesman Bob Gammer said. "We usually have right-of-ways, so there's not an issue.
"But some transmission circuits, we don't have that much of a gap between the line and the trees and in this case I think that is probably what happened."
The power in the community 63 kilometres south of Prince George went out at noon and, as of mid-afternoon, wasexpected to be restored by 5 p.m.
But Gammer indicated that might occur sooner depending on whether crews can re-energize an alternate line to the community that had been taken off service for the Highway 97 widening project.
The wind storm was credited with knocking out power to 102 customers west of Upper Mud River Road as well as to 67 customers along Flynn Road, west of Red Rock, and to 34 customers living along Nadilnich Lake, west of the city.
There were no outages within city limits as of 3 p.m.
"It's more of the outlying areas around Prince George," Gammer said. "Certainly, closer in downtown it's pretty solid."
