Face of Nation : More than 200,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity across the Atlantic region, and officials in Nova Scotia have warned it could be up to a week for power to be restored in some areas of the province.
Crews are continuing Monday to chainsaw through trees and repair downed power lines across Nova Scotia in the aftermath of powerful storm Dorian, amid widespread outages and closures, including all public schools.”There are certain parts of Halifax that I can say, having seen it first hand, that there are some very complex restorations that need to occur,” Nova Scotia Power president Karen Hutt told.
Dorian approached the region as a Category 2 hurricane and made landfall near Halifax on Saturday evening as a post-tropical storm with hurricane-strength winds. The province’s South Shore and the Halifax area were most affected by outages, she said.
Nova Scotia Power, a privately owned utility, is managing its restoration plan according to the path Dorian struck, Hutt said, leaving Cape Breton Island as one of the last places in the province that will addressed.
Emergency management officials urged drivers to stay off the roads after snaking drive-thru lines at some of few open fast-food restaurants impeded the path of emergency vehicles on Sunday. With many traffic lights out at major intersections, police were also warning those who did have to drive to treat those lights as a four-way stop.
After weekend ferry closures, Marine Atlantic is keeping an eye on the weather forecast in hopes of getting its crossings between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia back on track. Dorian’s storm system is tracking more than 280 kilometres off Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula, into the North Atlantic.
