School closures, power outages in the Maritimes [Video]

High winds are behind a number of power outages across the Maritimes Wednesday morning and some school closures in parts of central Nova Scotia.

Outages

At 8 a.m., there were 23 active outages in Nova Scotia, affecting 700 customers.

At that time in New Brunswick there were 16 outages affecting 185 NB Power customers.

And in P.E.I., there were 654 Maritime Electric customers without electricity around 7:30 a.m.

There were also outages in parts of Halifax and Dartmouth Tuesday night, which impacted around 2,600 Nova Scotia Power customers. Electricity was restored to both areas before 10:30 p.m.

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Schools

The Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education in Nova Scotia says the following schools are closed Wednesday due to the outages:

• West Colchester Consolidated
• Great Village Elementary
• Advocate District

Travel

The Confederation Bridgebegan restricting traffic to certain vehicles Tuesday night. A post on the bridge’s website says the …