Nova Scotia Power is working to restore hundreds of outages across the province.
During the worst of the storm, thousands of people were without electricity in Downtown Halifax, Dartmouth, Lower Sackville, Clayton Park, Spryfield and Herring Cove.
There’s still over about 45,000 homes and businesses without electricity right now province-wide.
Estimated restoration times don’t see the lights coming back on until Saturday.
Spokesperson Sean Borden says the biggest concern is heavy wet snow.
“They’re forecasting that would be predominantly along the Atlantic coast, in the western and central parts of the province,” says Borden. “That could change by the time the weather system arrives but that’s where we see the biggest risk right now.”
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Meantime, NSP brought in some extra resources for the storm to tackle the outages.
“We have our power line technicians, we also have vegetation crews that work on trees and we have our transmission crews that work on our bulk power system,” says Borden. “Right now we’ve activated all our internal crews.” said Borden.
