BC Hydro is in the home stretch in its efforts to restore electricity to customers left in the dark because of intense ice storms that swept through the Fraser Valley last week.

The utility’s website showed about 47 homes and businesses without power as of 9:45 p.m. PT on Tuesday, down from 650 earlier in the day, and down from a peak of more than 100,000 customers at the height of the outages.

BC Hydro says while repair crews have