The number of outages in the province appears to be slowly but surely dwindling two days after Arthur’s devastating arrival. N-B Power reporting more than 85 thousand homes and businesses in the province don’t have electricity as of early this afternoon and spokesperson Meghan Gerrish explains they have 200 crews on the ground working in very difficult conditions with help coming from Hydro QAuebec and Central Maine Power.
She estimates the majority of customers, 80 percent, should have power by the end of the day on Wednesday with the remainder of the customers expected to be back online by the weekend. Most of the outages are in Fredericton.
There were still more than 10 thousand homes and businesses without electricity early in the afternoon in St. Stephen, almost 10 thousand in Rothesay also including Quispamsis, Hampton, Grand Bay-Westfield and the Kingston Peninsula along with 42 hundred in Sussex.
The Quispamsis Civic Centre will be open until 5:00 this afternoon for people to recharge their cellphones and get fresh water. The Q-Plex lost power during the storm. Driscoll says the town has the Sentinel system which provides people who register with alerts but you have to register with the town.
In Fredericton, people can recharge their mobile devices and get water at the Grant Harvey and Willie O’Ree Rec Centres until 9 tonight as well as the Oromocto Municipal Building Centre until 10pm.
