Sandy still causing N.S. flight delays, power outages
Posted Oct 31, 2012 05:30:30 AM.
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Utility crews are working to restore power in Ontario, where the remnants of superstorm Sandy left 150-thousand customers in the dark.
At last count, the number of Ontario customers remaining to be connected had been reduced to about 25-thousand.
Sandy is now pelting northeastern Ontario with snow, ice pellets, freezing rain and high winds.
In Nova Scotia Wednesday morning, there were roving power outages in Dartmouth, Liverpool, Yarmouth and Caledonia, affecting upwards of 8,000 Nova Scotia Power customers at its peak. The utility blamed damage to overhead equipment.
South of the border, Sandy cut power to more than eight-million homes and businesses in 17 states as far west as Michigan.
That includes almost two-million customers in New York City, where seven subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn are flooded.
It could be several days before hundreds of thousands of customers have their electricity restored.
As many as 100 homes in a flooded beachfront neighbourhood in Queens burned to the ground and schools will be closed again today.
At least people 50 died in the U.S., with many of the deaths being blamed on falling trees.
One encouraging sign for the New York area in the aftermath of the superstorm – both J-F-K and Newark International airports were to begin limited service as of 7 a.m.
But LaGuardia Airport remains closed and it could also be four or five days before New York City’s subway system is running again.
At Halifax Stanfield International Wednesday morning, most U.S. departures were still cancelled, while there was just one cancellation on the arrivals board.
The New York Stock Exchange was also set to re-open Wednesday after a two-day closure because of the storm.
