Crews in Nova Scotia are restoring power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses left in the dark by hurricane Earl.More than 200-thousand Nova Scotia Power customers were blacked out yesterday, but that number has since been trimmed to less than 90-thousand.About a-third of the homes and businesses with no power are in the Halifax-Dartmouth area.Earl toppled many trees across the province, bringing down power lines.The storm is also blamed for one death.
Hurricane Earl quickly became tropical storm Earl when it made landfall Saturday morning just after 10:30, 85 kilometers west of Lunenburg. The fast moving storm, travailing 75 kilometers per hour provided late summer heavy rain and winds. Greenwood recorded 40 millimeters or rain and wind gusts of 65 km per hour. Power interruptions started just after 9 oclock Saturday morning, and by 3 pm over 200,000 customers on the Nova Scotia power grid were without power. Earl, one of the biggest storms in years measuring 650 kilometers in width delivering wind gusts of 123 kilometers per hour in Halifax.
Berwick Gala Days events that were cancelled Saturday will take place today at the following times.
Fire Works at the Wharf Rat Rally will take place tonight in Digby.
A popular Halifax clothing store has been damaged slightly by fire. Staff at Mills, on Spring Garden Road, smelled smoke Friday afternoon and called 9-1-1.The store was evacuated and firefighters arrived to find a small fire on the roof, which they quickly extinguished.The staff will be checking the clothing for possible smoke damage.
A preliminary hearing will be held in November for a Cole Harbour man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in June.Twenty-two-year Robert Thomas Crowe is charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm, sexual assault, anal intercourse without consent, unlawful confinement, robbery and other charges.Crowe was on probation from sexually assaulting two teens in 2007 when the June incident is alleged to have occurred.Crowe is accused of attacking the young woman after they left a house party together.
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