A tree has smashed through the roof of a home at 335 McCurdy Road in Kelowna.
The road is blocked off in the area.
The tree also took out a power line.
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It’s one of dozens of calls Fortis and BC Hydro crews were called out to in the Okanagan and Shuswap following a wicked windstorm on Tuesday.
Dag Sharman with BC Hydro says more than 30,000 customers are without power due to more than 90 outages in the Okanagan, Shuswap, Thompson and Kootenay areas.
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Most of the outages are due to trees or branches falling on power lines.
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