Maritimers regroup after storm

Maritimers are assessing the damage after Friday's storm that produced gusts of wind reaching 130 km/h.

At the peak of the storm, there were more than 34,000 households without power across the Maritimes, with the vast majority of those in Nova Scotia.

By Saturday afternoon, Nova Scotia Power had restored electricity to all affected customers.

Meanwhile, there were still 2,368 customers without power in New Brunswick at 4 p.m. AT, with 1,880 of those in the northern city of Miramichi.

Heather MacLean, a spokeswoman for NB Power, said heavy snow is the culprit for many of the continued outages, particularly in the Miramichi area.

On Saturday afternoon, NB Power was reporting 52 separate outages in the Miramichi area, making it difficult for crews to restore power to all those affected.

"We will not get those cleaned up [Saturday night]. We have our crews on and we have moved crews to assist in that area but that is quite a lot of separate incidents in the particular area," MacLean said.

"So we will see restorations continue throughout the day and evening but they will filter into [Sunday]."

Weather warnings

NB Power has called in contractors to cut down trees that have fallen onto lines or are impeding their ability to reconnect the electricity.

Although some outages will continue into Sunday in Miramichi, MacLean said the utility expects to get the power restored in the Bouctouche area, which has also been hit hard by the storm. At 4 p.m., there were roughly 500 households in the southeastern New Brunswick community affected by a power outage.

Much of eastern and northern New Brunswick is covered by severe weather warnings.

Environment Canada, which issues those warnings, has forecast between 10 and 30 centimetres of snow to fall in eastern and northern parts of the province.

Another 15 centimetres of snow is expected to fall in Cape Breton. Environment Canada is also predicting winds gusting up to 110 km/h over the Cape Breton Highlands.

Air travel resumes

As some Maritime residents waited for their power to be turned back on, air travel was returning to normal on Saturday.

At the Halifax and Moncton international airports there are only minor delays, typically lasting less than half an hour.

On the ground, Nova Scotia's Department of Transportation is reporting a few problems with roads.

Cathy MacIsaac, a department spokeswoman, said Lunenburg County suffered the most damage and at least one road was closed until Saturday.

MacIsaac said people should be careful around some broken asphalt and washed-out shoulders in the county.

"There are some smaller roads that they are doing assessments on to determine whether or not they are passable," she said.