Power crews had a busy day in New Brunswick after tens of thousands of customers lost electricity amid wind and rain Monday.
As of 5:30 p.m., more than 8,000 NB Power customers were still without power, according to the NB Power outage map. That number was up to 45,000 earlier in the day.
The outages were largely in the Charlotte southwest, Central York Sunbury and Victoria Madawaska areas.
In a statement, NB Power spokesperson Dominique Couture said the majority of customers without power in the Fredericton and Charlotte southwest areas were impacted by an outage in the transmission system.
“Crews are currently on site to investigate and restore power safely and efficiently to customers,” said Couture.
“We are also seeing scattered outages due to high winds and significant rain in certain areas which crews are addressing at this time.”
Saint John Energy also spent Monday restoring power for about 10,000 customers, with the lower west side last to come back on the grid by mid-afternoon.
The Saint John power utility said they lost supplies from two transmission lines from the rain and high winds.