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Tens of thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are without power Saturday after high winds and rain hit the province overnight.
The utility said in a statement that as of 8 a.m. AT Saturday, about 186,000 customers had lost power in total, but more than 90,000 had been restored.
As of 10:12 a.m., Nova Scotia Power’s outage map showed roughly 73,000 customers still without power.
Estimated restoration times range from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
High winds cancelled and delayed some flights out of Halifax Stanfield International Airport, while ferry sailings between North Sydney and Newfoundland have been cancelled for the day.
Nova Scotia Power said more than 600 people are in the field working to safely restore power as quickly as possible.
“Our crews have been working through some challenging conditions with high wind bringing trees and branches into power lines, broken poles and at times, poor visibility,” Pam Scully-Poirier, Nova Scotia Power’s storm lead, said in a statement.
The utility said it will be using a helicopter to patrol power lines in different parts of the province to search for damage.
CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon said widespread gusts of 80 to 100 km/h hit Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Peak gusts were in the 100 to 120 km/h range in exposed areas. The top recorded wind gust for Nova Scotia was 127 km/h in Monastery, Antigonish County.
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