Manitoba Hydro crews were working to bring back electricity to thousands of homes that lost power due to Saturday's storm in Western Manitoba, as high winds continued to cause trouble for the restoration efforts.

The outage knocked out the power of thousands of homes in the southwest. Manitoba Hydro said on social media Sunday evening that prolonged outages are expected to affect customers in Brandon and Killarney as well as Dauphin, Swan River, Neepawa, Russell and Virden.

"Despite our efforts t…