Environment Canada issued storm-surge warnings for the entire Atlantic coast of mainland Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs urged residents to have enough supplies to last 72 hours
Premier Blaine Higgs warned residents to have enough food, medicine and other supplies to last them 72 hours. “Do not put yourselves in harm’s way. And caution others, certainly, to do the same,” he said Friday afternoon during a hurricane briefing.
“Some people go get extra food – I have a garden and my freezer and I have animals so I could spend a month here without having to go to the store and buy food.” People stocked up on batteries and flashlights at Canadian Tire while queues at grocery stores wound dozens of people deep. Trulee Love and Bria Oswald, 23-year-old Dalhousie University students, carried armfuls of storm chips, muffins, wraps, veggies and cans of tuna – food that doesn’t need to go in the fridge – to prepare for the storm.
At a provincial press conference Friday, Nova Scotia Power’s senior director of energy delivery said the company is most concerned with high winds knocking down trees onto power lines in Digby, Yarmouth and Shelburne.