The lights are out over much of the South Shore.
More than five thousand customers are currently without power.
According the Nova Scotia Power website, the outages occurred shortly after 2 o'clock today.
Customers from various regions including New Germany, East Dalhousie, Springfield, Bridgewater, Lower and South Cornwall and West Northfield are experiencing outages.
As of 4:30 PM, 12101 customers are without power
The cause of the outages is being investigated.
The estimated restoration time for all outages is approximately 5 o'clock today.
For more information follow the link provided below.
http://www.nspower.ca/en/home/residential/outageinformation/liveoutagemap.aspx