The power was switched on in five more Calgary communities overnight, and that leaves just three more still without power.

Residents in the Beltline, Elbow Park, Erlton, Riverdale, and Victoria Park now have power, leaving just Cliff Bungalow, East Village, and Mission as the only neighbourhoods in the city suffering from outages.

Gary Semenchuk, who lives in East Village, ignored the evacuation order and has been living in his building for the past six days without any power.

He says he’s not leaving there no matter how long it takes to get switched back on.

“You can’t really abandon a building because there are things that happen, alarms go off, and they have to be attended to.”

His neighbour Tom Taylor, who lives across the street, has been locked out of his building along with his fellow tenants.

He says that details from the city on what’s going on are sketchy.

“There’s a whole bunch of stuff going on inside there, but we don’t know what’s going on.”

The power outages are also taking their toll on small businesses in the area too.

Mohammd Kanji runs a small pharmacy and he says the power has shut down his tills and he isn’t getting any new business or off-the-street retail sales.

“We don’t know when we get it back so we’re just doing the best we can,” he says.

Kanji does have a generator to run a computer and light, so that’s enough to at least get people their much-needed prescriptions, which he delivers at his own cost.

“We have gotten a hold of most of our regular customers and, for the most part, they are getting their medications on a timely basis.”

The city says is has 200 line workers on the ground and over 100 support staff who are going full out to repair and replace power systems.

Officials say they have restored power to over 10,000 residences in the last 24 hours and over 21,000 over the last few days.

The city says there are still three red zones that are experiencing outages and inspectors are attempting to gain access to about 100 buildings to assess the situation.

Anyone with a business or residence in the green zone, that currently does not have electricity, should contact the city at 311, or visit calgary.ca.

For the latest outages, visit the ENMAX website.