Nova Scotia Power customers faced rolling blackouts on Sunday as high winds and rain disrupted the provincial power grid.

The provincial power service posted on X at 7 a.m. on Sunday that crews were out responding to the outages.

As of 7:30 a.m., 23,485 customers were without power across the province, with 2,927 affected in the city of Halifax according to the power company’s outage map.

According to the power company, the estimated restoration time will be sometime Sunday evening at the latest.

Earlier this month, over 60,000 customers were affected by blackouts across the province because of an interruption in the transmission line going to New Brunswick.



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