Hopefully you have already tied down the Santa’s, snowmen, and reindeer on your lawn or patio.
Nova Scotia Power is dealing with about 35,00 outages at homes and businesses as winds are really blowing strong.
The utility has extra crews on standby to get the lights back on as soon as possible.
The bulk of the outages are in Halifax, the Annapolis Valley area and Digby, but the storm still needs to make its will way to the eastern part of our province and Cape Breton later tonight.
Spokesperson Matt Drover says they have teams spread out across our province to respond.
“We will be positioning crews across the province so they are ready to respond as soon as it is safe to do so,” said Drover. “High winds can cause trees to come into contact with power lines causing power outages and can also slow restoration efforts” said Drover.
He is asking for patience as they must wait for winds to calm before getting crews up in buckets.
Strongest winds expected later
Environment Canada meteorologist Ian Hubbard says the strongest winds will be felt this afternoon.
“Most areas will see gusts of up to 90 km/h, but it looks like the strongest winds could hit 100 km/h. There’s not much rain with the system, only 15-20 millimetres for most areas,” said Hubbard.
The areas with the highest winds will be in communities from Halifax to Yarmouth.
He says conditions should start improving around supper time.
Cancellations
Bay Ferries Limited says some of its sailings have been revised or cancelled.
The Digby 4pm sailing is cancelled as is Tuesday’s 8 a.m. Saint John departure.
Service will resume Tuesday with the Digby 11 a.m. sailing.
