Enmax should have power restored to all of west downtown by midday Thursday "if all goes according to plan," power company CEO Gianna Manes said on Monday.

The utility has pulled out 3.5 kilometres of cable damaged in an underground vault fire Saturday night, and has begun to replace it, the CEO told reporters at an Emergency Operations Centre briefing.

Earlier, the city-owned utility had estimated it could take until the weekend to restore power to several high-density blocks of the downtown. Manes said the clearer timeline has come after 20 Enmax workers have worked continuously in confined underground spaces.

The city's roads should all be back and running during Tuesday morning rush hour, Mayor Naheed Nenshi told the briefing. There will be some lane reductions in the area where the fire occurred.

Seventy per cent of residents in the blackout zone have self evacuated, fire chief Ken Uzeloc said. City crews are doing checks on the many seniors who have chosen to stay in their buildings.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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For much of the morning and early afternoon Sunday, residents of the area's condo towers and apartment buildings could be seen hauling belongings out of their homes in suitcases, grocery bags, and trolley carts. Others sat on the curbside, waiting for suburban friends or family members to pick them up.

Many of these residents had spent the night in their powerless apartments, fully expecting life would be back to normal when they woke up. It was only Sunday morning, as news began to trickle in, that they realized it might be a good idea to find another place to stay.

Taara Smith sat outside her Calgary Place apartment building, waiting for the friend who has offered to take her in for a few days.

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CALGARYA fire in an underground electrical vault has left customers in a large section of Calgarys downtown core without power, and officials say it could be days before the electricity can be restored.

The city says the fire, which happened in a manhole Saturday night, completely destroyed the electrical infrastructure inside.

More than 100 buildings, including apartments and office towers, are affected.

It is expected that the majority of customers power will be restored in about four days. However there will be some areas that will not be restored for a week, a statement Sunday on the citys website said.

Calgarys mayor, Naheed Nenshi, is urging people to make arrangements to temporarily move to another location.

Police have set up a security perimeter around part of the affected area, but say people will be allowed in and out.

Matt, a cook at Lord Nelsons Bar and Grill which is just outside the affected zone, said his 16th-floor apartment has no power.

I feel like, what the heck? I feel upset. This is Canada, its not in Africa. Why is it four to seven days before the hydro can be back?

He said emergency workers and roadblocks were everywhere when he left work Saturday night, and that it looked like an action movie. When he finally reached his building, he had to wait half an hour before security guards would let residents enter.

He took the stairs because there was no power to run the elevators. There was still no power when he got up Sunday morning, and the water for his shower was starting to get cold.

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A "freak" underground fire downtown has sparked power outages for thousands of residents, snarled traffic, injured an ATCO employee, and even cut water pressure for some in a large swath of downtown.

An estimated 5,000 Enmax customers and 2,100 area businesses will be without power for as long as a week.

"For those of you who are planning on cooking Thanksgiving dinner today in that area, well you'll have to make other plans, I'm sorry to say," Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Sunday morning.

Gianna Manes, president and CEO of Enmax, said crews have to rebuild the affected electrical system and it's expected power will be back on sometime between the evening of Oct. 15 and Oct. 18.

"The electrical equipment that has been impacted by this fire has had significant damage," she said.

For much of the morning and early afternoon, residents of the area's condo towers and apartment buildings could be seen hauling belongings out of their homes in suitcases, grocery bags, and trolley carts. Others sat on the curbside, waiting for suburban friends or family members to pick them up.

Many of these residents had spent the night in their powerless apartments, fully expecting life would be back to normal when they woke up. It was only Sunday morning, as news began to trickle in, that they realized it might be a good idea to find another place to stay.

Taara Smith sat outside her Calgary Place apartment building, waiting for the friend who has offered to take her in for a few days.

"We all really thought it was going to be a two or three-hour thing," Smith said. "It was only this morning when Mayor Nenshi said 4 to 7 days then everyone freaked out."

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By Tom Sater and Junko Ogura, CNN

October 12, 2014 -- Updated 2142 GMT (0542 HKT)

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(CNN) -- The latest in a string of powerful storms to hit Japan -- Vongfong -- weakened from typhoon to tropical storm as it made landfall in Okinawa prefecture early Sunday local time.

At least 33 injuries related to the storm were reported across Okinawa, Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, officials said.

At least 60,000 across Japan were without power.

Japan's four main islands were expected to receive between 50 to 60 centimeters (19 to 24 inches) of rain.

Despite its weakening, authorities took steps such as stopping bullet train services because of flying debris and issued landslide warnings.

The storm comes on the heels of Typhoon Phanfone, which swept over southern Japan last week, washing three U.S. airmen out to sea on Okinawa.

U.S. and Japanese search crews found the last airman's body on Wednesday, according to a news release issued by authorities at Kadena.

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HYDERABAD: Reclassified as a "very severe cyclonic storm" by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Hudhud continued to gather force ahead of reaching Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh by Sunday. The cyclone will persist for nearly six hours post-landfall in the morning and peak by noon. It is expected to subsequently weaken over the next six hours while moving north-westwards across south Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

Andhra officials said they will temporarily relocate 5 lakh people, who will be accommodated across 370 relief camps by Sunday morning. Srikakulam and East Godavari, expected to bear the brunt of the cyclone's fury, account for the maximum number of evacuations. By Saturday afternoon, officials claim over 1.1 lakh people had already been evacuated.

Though not a "super cyclone", the Met on Saturday night upgraded the possible wind speed of the cyclonic storm from 155kmph to 195kmph. Met officials warned that strong winds and heavy rainfall were likely to disrupt electricity and telecommunications services as well as road and rail traffic along the coast.

Fisherwomen pray for the relief from cyclonic storm Hudhud in Srikakulam, on October 11, 2014. (PTI photo)

As the severity of the storm is expected to intensify, the weather department says all nine coastal districts may be affected. Allaying concerns, Union earth science minister Jitendra Singh said Hudhud is "very severe" in scientific terms, but certainly not a "super cyclone". He appealed to people "not to get unduly alarmist" because the concerned departments are already geared up for any eventuality.

Modi briefed

In an emergency high-level meeting to review preparedness on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefed on evacuation and other precautionary and preparatory measures being undertaken for coping with the cyclone. The PM asked home minister Rajnath Singh to remain in touch with the chief ministers of the states likely to be affected by it.

The official statement said, "He (Modi) instructed senior officers of the union government to maintain close contact and coordination with officers of the affected states to ensure that relief and rescue operations proceed smoothly. He said suitable arrangements should be made to inform people about the cyclone on a real-time basis."

With Bonda Ghati being expected to be the worst sufferers for the cyclonic storm Hudhud, as a precautionary measure, the Malkangiri district administration evacuated primitive Bonda tribe to Mudulipada school. (PTI photo)

The measures include deployment of teams from the armed forces and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), depletion of reservoirs to accommodate cyclonic rainwater, positioning of boats, swimmers and relief camps and standby systems to restore power and telecom services, the statement said.

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