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Heavy snow knocks out power to northwest Sask.

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A tree bows from the weight of heavy snow outside Joanna Metz's home in Meadow Lake on Oct. 16, 2016. Falling trees caused downed lines and power outages in the area for more than 24 hours.

By 650 CKOM

Severe weather and falling trees caused rolling blackouts in parts of northwest Saskatchewan over the weekend. 

Tweets from SaskPower, starting before noon Sunday, indicated crews were dispatched to several towns and First Nations communities after they were hit with power outages. 

As of Monday morning, SaskPower spokesman Jonathan Tremblay said he didn't have exact numbers for people affected by the outages, but added the Meadow Lake area was hit hard.

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