Blindside leaves 300,000 residents in dark

The powerful thunderstorms that blindsided Toronto this afternoon have left more than 300,000 people without power, Toronto Hydro says. The utility’s well-known map showing the location of outages and the numbers of residents effected can’t be kept up to date and has been taken offline. The power failure has also brought subways to a halt and there seems little idea when they might be operational again.  Globe and Mail