Two homes in the 100 block of Hanover Street in Steinbach lost electrical service in thunderstorms early Monday morning. Fire Chief Kel Toews says they got the call at 2:45 a.m.

"We were called to a report of a hydro line down. A tree had landed on a hydro line and caused an outage. I know that one of the houses was going to be out of power until an electrician showed up (because the mast on the house was pulled down) and the other one I'm not sure. Hydro was on scene and assessing the situation when we left."

The thunderstorms dropped between 35 and 50 millimetres of rain in Steinbach.