Day 3 for power outages, many New Brunswick schools remain closed
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After a storm rocked New Brunswick with high winds and heavy rain on Monday and overnight into Tuesday, nearly 50,000 N.B. Power customers were still without power Wednesday morning.
The majority of customers without electricity are in south-central regions.
One of these is Mavis Doucette, a resident of Hanwell, outside Fredericton, who found herself in a tricky situation when she lost power. She had three freezers filled with food and needed to act quickly.
Luckily, a friend called her on Tuesday to say she could make room in her own freezer. The two worked to clean out Doucette's freezers and still had to throw out $300 to $400 worth of food.
But Doucette saved the most important things, about $700 worth, and the food is now in her friend's freezer.
"It just shows you that there's good people out there willing to help," Doucette said.
Peak outages reached 107,000 customers at one point Tuesday, and downed lines and fallen trees littered the province.
N.B. Power spokesperson Dominique Couture told Information Morning Fredericton on Wednesday that damage is extensive, but N.B. Power was prepared and has additional crews coming out to help.
She said the priority for restoration was "critical infrastructure," such as health centres, fire and police.
"That was the main focus yesterday," she said.
"Then we have to restore power or address things that are public safety concerns. So, for example, if we see live wires ... And then we focus on the outages that can bring back the most amount of customers in the least amount of time."
Officials at a news conference on Tuesday also warned New Brunswickers to be prepared for prolonged outages.
For the second day in a row, many schools stayed closed because of power outages.
The following schools in the Anglophone West School District are closed Wednesday:
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