B.C. Hydro said power was out Tuesday night for about 130,000 customers on Vancouver Island. Sections of several Island highways were closed because of downed trees and debris.

Tens of thousands of people, primarily on Vancouver Island, were without power overnight after hurricane-force wind gusts from a "bomb cyclone" system blasted southwest British Columbia on Tuesday night.

Thousands of Vancouver Island residents were without power, and several highways closed Tuesday evening after a 'bomb cyclone' brought powerful winds to the B.C. coast.

Thousands of BC Hydro customers are still in the dark as of early Wednesday after powerful winds began to batter parts of the province due to a 'bomb cyclone' off the B.C. coast.

Hurricane-force winds of up to 170 km/h have slammed into parts of the British Columbia coast as a massive storm swirling off Vancouver Island severed highways and cut power to more than 200,000 people overnight.