Widespread blackouts that hit sometime after 9 p.m. tonight have left Hydro authorities as good as speechless tonight. The normal emergency assessment from Toronto Hydro is absent. Social media is alive with reports of widespread darkness stretching from the Junction to the Yonge and St. Clair area. This picture which appeared at 9.33 on twitter is said to show lights in the distance to the north at Lawrence Ave. The inset picture looks south across the Midtown void to a full-lighted downtown. A running commentary says power has been restored in High Park and Bloor and Spadina. Hydro One said it had “lost power” to five stations. There was a broadcast report of a fire in a downtown substation. The Bloor-Danforth line is interrupted. Twitter
