100,000 powerless after snowstorm lashes Nova Scotia

[tropicana]

Halifax NS..Mon Nov 15th 2004

Imagine being trapped in your home with no heat and no power, while snow 45 centimetres high piles up outside your door.

That's what more than 100,000 Nova Scotia residents are faced with, after a massive winter storm pummeled the province on the weekend.

The major problem wasn't the flakes, which hit with a non-stop vengeance. It was the ice that coated most of the power lines, bringing six main steel transmission lines toppling to the ground and cutting off the juice to homes and businesses in and around Halifax.

Crews are working non-stop to get it restored, but admit the damage is so extensive, the electricity could remain off for at least a week.

"Transmission towers crumpling is right up there with the kind of damage we associate with ice storms or that we saw during hurricane Juan," relates Margaret Murphy, a spokesperson for Nova Scotia power. "It's some of the most extreme damage that you can imagine to your power system."

Help is on the way from both New Brunswick and Maine, but it may not get there soon enough to warm those sitting in the dark and the cold.

The province has become to Canadian winter what Florida is to hurricanes in the U.S. Juan dumped an unbelievable 95 centimetres of snow on the Maritime locale in Sept 2003, and this latest blow is likely to cost millions of dollars for clean-up and repairs.

Nova Scotia normally gets around nine centimetres of snow in all of November.
-justin-

[BritBob]

Juan dumped an unbelievable 95 centimetres of snow on the Maritime locale in Sept 2003, and this latest blow is likely to cost millions of dollars for clean-up and repairs.

Nova Scotia normally gets around nine centimetres of snow in all of November.
-justin-

I think they got that bit confused there

[HalloweenGale]

No really. hurricanes dont dump snow