2015 South Coast blackout
The 2015 South Coast blackout was a power outage that affected more than 710,000 residents living in the Lower Mainland  and Vancouver Island regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was the largest blackout event in BC Hydro history. The blackout was a result of windstorm that hit the South Coast on August 29–30, 2015, which shut down a generator and wiped out a power grid in the Lower Mainland. The hardest hit areas were Abbotsford, Coquitlam, Langley, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Surrey. The blackout lasted more than 72 hours for some neighbourhoods in these municipalities.