Nova Scotia

Power restored after storm blows through Maritimes

Power has been restored after thousands in the Maritimes were without electricity on Sunday morning after a messy storm system swept across the region.

Environment Canada has lifted weather alerts for N.B., P.E.I. and N.S.

a picture of water on a road
Officials in the Yarmouth area reminded residents to not drive through deep water as storm surge caused flooding on some roadways. (Yarmouth County Regional Emergency Management/Facebook)

Power has been restored after thousands in the Maritimes were without electricity on Sunday morning after a messy storm system swept across the region.

Environment Canada has lifted all weather alerts for New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. There were wind warnings across the region and a risk of storm surge in coastal areas.

New Brunswick's provincial utility was showing no remaining outages on its map.

As of 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nova Scotia Power's outage map showed showed no major outages, compared to about 3,600 earlier in the morning. 

Maritime Electric was reporting power has been restored to all of its customers who were without power in P.E.I. on Sunday morning.  

Peak wind guts map for P.E.I.  - East Point 93 km/h  - North cape: 89km/h - Maple Plains 87 km/h  - Harrington 87km/h  - Summerside 83km/h  - Charlottetown 80 km/h
CBC Meteorologist Jay Scotland said a strong southeasterly wind did result in outages and even a full bridge closure last night. (Jay Scotland/CBC)

Bay Ferries cancelled crossings from Digby and Saint John, N.B., on Sunday. The Saint John departure scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday was also cancelled.  

Service was expected to resume with the 4 p.m. departure from Digby on Monday.

The Confederation Bridge closed on Saturday night but has reopened.