Power out for thousands across Maritimes amid strong winds
CTV
Maritimers are bracing from strong winds and rain in the region Monday.
For the third Monday in a row, a storm system moved through the Maritimes.
High winds and heavy rain impacted much of the region Monday afternoon, with more expected overnight.
Environment Canada issued warnings for all three Maritime provinces.
Nova Scotia Power said in a news release that it was activating its emergency operations centre on Monday to respond quickly to possible outages.
"What we are expecting though is that there will be a prolonged period of winds above 80 kilometers an hour, which may delay some of those restorations, but as soon as winds get low enough that it's safe to get out there we will be restoring power as quickly as possible," said Nova Scotia Power storm lead Matt Drover.
There were 470 outages affecting 31,333 customers in the province as of 9 p.m., according to the Nova Scotia Power outage map.
The NB Power outage map reported 79,376 customers impacted by unplanned outages, mostly in the western part of the province.
