Many Islanders likely to remain in the dark through weekend
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Maritime Electric has about 200 crews from across the country trying to restore power for customers without — but some will remain in the dark through the weekend.
According to the Maritime Electric Outage Map roughly 34,000 customers were still without power as of 5 p.m on Friday.
Some power restoration is likely to continue into Sunday and Monday in some areas, said Kim Griffin, spokesperson for Maritime Electric during a media briefing on Friday afternoon. And some will take longer.
"We're sorry about that, but we are working very hard," she said.
"Depending on your area there may be some areas that are still hit pretty hard, but we also want to make sure that you and your community know and can plan ... these are major pockets that we still don't think we are going to have on over the next couple of days."
These communities include:
"Of these communities we have pockets we know are not going to be on or are going to need assistance," Griffin said.
Maritime Electric is working with the province to ensure warming centres are established for as long as they are needed in communities with no power, Griffin said.
Griffin said since the storm hit the Island last weekend and power was knocked out to virtually every Maritime Electric customer, the utility has been able to get power back to about 47,000 customers, including:
She said on Friday, crews also made progress in "parts of Cardigan, large areas in Vernon River and Montague to St. Peters Road. Brush Wharf Road. Three subdivisions in Stratford, parts of West Royalty and the May Point area."
She said power was also restored Friday to about 20 per cent more of customers in the Tignish area, and work on the North River Causeway, where several utility poles fell, was expected to be done by Friday night.
"Work continues to address the high priority customers in each district," Griffin said. "These include farms, customers, businesses, medical centres, gas stations, schools, seniors homes — they are not all done yet."
The target for Maritime Electric is to have power restored for about 6,500 more customers across the Island by the end of the day Friday.
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