UPDATE: Power Outages (10AM)

Last night's heavy rain and hurricane-force wind gusts created a lot of problems. The biggest impact was on power. At one point during the night, close to 50-thousand Nova Scotians lost their electricity, including thousands along the South Shore from St. Margarets Bay to Yarmouth. Wind gusts were close to 100 by times which tore limbs from trees, destroyed fences, ripped shingles off rooves and toppled power poles and lines. There are still about 20-thousand Nova Scotia Power customers without electricity with the most outages in the eastern part of the province and Cape Breton. NSP hopes to have everyone re-connected as the day goes on. There have also been numerous delays or cancellations of flights this morning at Halifax's Stanfield International Airport.