NB Power restores 99% of Arthur power outages

FREDERICTON – Eleven days after post-tropical storm Arthur, 1,200 customers are still in the dark.

About 900 of those are in the Fredericton area. The rest are in Woodstock, Rothesay and St. Stephen.

Of the 140,000 customers who had lost power during the storm, NB Power wanted to have 99 per cent of them back on the grid by Tuesday evening.

They reached that goal Tuesday afternoon.

The utility is warning residents that some will briefly lose power as crews work to restore more customers on nearby lines. These outages are temporary.

Nearly 60 per cent of the province was impacted when Arthur hit New Brunswick with 115 millimetres of rain and wind gusts up to 100 km/hour.  During the December ice storm, 24 per cent of NB Power’s customers.