Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers were still without electricity Monday evening, following a weekend storm that brought freezing rain to the province.
As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, the utility's power outage map showed that nearly 5,000 customers were still without electricity.
Of those, over 2,000 were in the Sydney, N.S., area.
At its peak, about 120,000 customers were knocked off the grid, which Nova Scotia Power says was due to thick build-up of ice on trees, power lines and equipment across the province.
Roughly 600 Nova Scotia Power employees have been deployed to help restore power. However, the utility says crews have been hampered by icy roads and debris.
"They have been experiencing some travel delays with the ice build-up on the roads as well," said Matt Drover with Nova Scotia Power. "And we've been working very closely with EMO and Public Works to get access to our infrastructure."
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Cellphone video captured during the storm also appears to show a number of transformers catching fire in the province.
According to Drover, most customers were expected to be back online by Monday evening.
Comfort centres are open in various spots across the province to give people a place to get warm, have a hot drink and charge their phones.
Most of Nova Scotia was hit with freezing rain on Friday into Saturday, while heavy snow blanketed some areas.
As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, over 600 NB Power customers were without power, while power had been fully restored on Prince Edward Island.
However, NB Power spokesperson Marc Belliveau says most of the outages were in the Fredericton region and were not related to the storm.
"It seems that the source is wires/insulators near our Aberdeen substation,” Belliveau explained to CTV News in an email.
He said crews were at the scene working to restore power as quickly as possible.
The leftover ice also affected school pick-up and drop-off at some Nova Scotia schools on Monday.
Although schools were open in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Victoria County and Annapolis Valley, school buses were not running in most of those areas due to a build-up of ice on bus roofs.
The regional centres for education said the ice build-up was blocking emergency roof hatches, resulting in a safety issue.
They added that if ice loosens while buses are on the road, it could be a hazard for other motorists.
The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education said buses were still running north of Smokey Mountain on Monday because that area received mostly snow.
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