Post-Tropical storm Lee left the Maritimes with a trail of downed trees and debris that caused wide-scale power outages in two provinces.
Residents in parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick spent yesterday clearing tree branches, leaves and other debris.
In Bridgewater and other towns along Nova Scotia’s South Shore, fast-food outlets did a roaring business as residents stopped for a coffee, a hot meal and wifi access.
In Halifax the cleanup continued as the city dealt with as many as 130 downed trees.
As of 4:00am Monday, Nova Scotia Power was reporting more than 1,400 power outages affecting more than 23,000 customers. Many of those customers are not expected to get their power restored until 11:00pm Monday night.
NB Power, meanwhile, has been reporting more than 270 outages this morning, affecting more than 1,400 customers.
Here in PEI, Maritime Electric says power has been fully restored. Crews were working through the storm on Saturday restoring power in widespread scattered power outages across the province, mostly in Charlottetown, central and eastern PEI, although there were some in Prince County as well. At peak times of the storm, there were as many as 4.600 customers without power.
