Nova Scotia Power completing final power restorations amid frigid temperatures

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power says it is working on the final restorations of electricity almost three days after a severe storm snapped hydro poles and caused widespread outages in the province.

The utility issued a news release at 6:30 a.m. local time Thursday saying 1,000 of the 158,000 customers across Nova Scotia affected by the storm still didn’t have power, with the majority of the outages occurring since the original storm system on Christmas Day.

Wind gusts over 100 kilometres per hour that began Christmas Day and continued into Boxing Day caused the damage.

Since then a cold front has descended in the region, and temperatures have plummeted.