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HALIFAX:<\/strong> Nova Scotia Power will open its Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) tomorrow morning, Jan. 10 at 8 a.m. ahead of the latest windstorm expected to hit the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur team has been monitoring the weather forecasts over the last several days,” said Matt Drover, Storm Lead with NSP. “In light of the high winds expected to reach 90-100+ km an hour across the province, we will be activating our Emergency Operation Centre.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This will ensure we are best coordinating our storm response, so we\u2019re ready to respond to any impact that comes as a result of those high winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”207″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crews are getting ready and will be positioned across the province ahead of the storm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nova Scotia Power will be working closely with the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe storm is anticipated to be similar to other windstorms that impacted the province in December, and the ” Our crews are prepared to safely respond to this type of damage as quickly as possible,\u201d said Drover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trees coming into contact with power lines is the number one cause of outages during storms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why Nova Scotia Power has been increasing its investment in tree trimming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2023, $32 million was invested in trimming, cutting and removing trees and widening rights of ways. That was up $7 million from the year before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, nearly $45 million will be invested in this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotater group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outage Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Customers can report outages and get estimated restoration times online at outagemap.nspower.ca or by calling 1-877-428-6004. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As crews are able to assess the extent of damage or impacts to equipment, estimated restoration times may be updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restoration Phases<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more info visit: http:\/\/nspower.ca\/storm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Safety and storm preparedness tips can be found on our website: www.nspower.ca\/stormready <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”206″] [adrotate banner=”126″] HALIFAX: Nova Scotia Power will open its Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) tomorrow morning, Jan. 10 at 8 a.m. ahead of the latest windstorm expected to hit the province. \u201cOur team has been monitoring the weather forecasts over the last several days,” said Matt Drover, Storm Lead with NSP. “In light of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[5959,50,121,48,4336,1453,237],"class_list":["post-41891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-emergency-operations-centre","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia-power","tag-nsp","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
strength of these winds is expected to impact the electricity grid as well,\u201d said Drover. \u201cThe number one cause of
power outages during storms is trees coming into contact with power lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n