People in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are bracing for post-tropical storm Lee as it moves closer to making landfall in Atlantic Canada.
In a release Saturday morning, Nova Scotia Power said the outages are the result of downed trees and strong winds of up to 100 km/h in the western part of the province, and up to 90 km/h in downtown Halifax.More than 600 people, including power line technicians and forestry workers, are in the field today, but "conditions are getting worse" and in most cases, power won't be able to be restored until the winds recede, said Nova Scotia Power.
"Especially when winds are above 80 km/h, it isn't safe for our crews to be up in the buckets, so we focus on assessing damage and restoring power from the ground where possible," Matt Drover, the organization's storm lead, said in the release.N.B. Power has a team of 700 on standby to help with electricity outages. Nova Scotia Power said Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth are its biggest area of concern, so crews were sent there in advance of the storm.
"We don't want anybody out on the streets, but this is the mainstay, the fishery. It's right down there and probably the most dangerous territory and … they have to check on their livelihoods."The biggest worry, Mood said, is how the wharf will withstand possible storm surges.
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