Hurricane Juan

Nova Scotia experienced hurricane, named Juan. Hurricane Juan caused the most damage ever to Nova Scotia Power's transmission and distribution system that created the largest outage in Nova Scotia Power's history. As Hurricane Juan's winds began to die down, Nova Scotia Power began the restoration effort. Crews fanned out along the path of the Hurricane to assess the damage and provide the information from which plans could be developed to remove trees, eliminate safety hazards and restore power. Beginning early Monday morning, our first priorities were working with emergency measures organization and the municipalities to address public safety hazards and to restore power to critical customers like hospitals who were relying on backup generators for power supply. Within five days of the Hurricane, 95 percent of those who lost power had service restored.