{"id":7674,"date":"2017-12-26T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T15:59:48","slug":"about-47000-without-power-after-blizzard-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/about-47000-without-power-after-blizzard-in-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"About 47,000 without power after blizzard in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Hundreds of Nova Scotia Power crews will spend Boxing Day stitching together power lines snapped by a winter storm that brought damaging winds to Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Just over 47,000 homes and businesses in Nova Scotia remained without electricity as of about 10:30 a.m. Around 58,000 customers who were blacked out had their power returned by late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial utility said more than 500 personnel would be working today to restore service.<\/p>\n<p>But even with the extra help, the power company says damage is substantial and the &#8220;vast majority of customers&#8221; may not have their electricity restored until noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The storm brought winds gusting up to 100 kilometres perm hour along the Atlantic Coast, along with a mix of snow, freezing rain and rain across the province. Today&#8217;s forecast for much of Nova Scotia calls for a few centimetres of snow with winds gusting to 50 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p>NL Hydro reported outages early Tuesday affecting Port Saunders, Eddies Cove and Port Au Choix. The utility has not said when power would return and did not have a restoration estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Nova Scotia Power crews will spend Boxing Day stitching together power lines snapped by a winter storm that brought damaging winds to Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day. Just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3539],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/power.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}