{"id":42545,"date":"2015-02-16T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42545"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:03:52","slug":"thousands-without-power-after-savage-winter-storm-pounds-maritimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/16\/thousands-without-power-after-savage-winter-storm-pounds-maritimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands without power after savage winter storm pounds Maritimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34133\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_180605156-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Thousands of people in the Maritimes are in the dark today after a savage winter storm pounded the region over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nova Scotia Power says about 3,800 customers were without power around 7 a.m. Monday, while NB Power said roughly the same number were in the dark in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation Bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island is shut down and many flights at Halifax Stanfield International Airport are cancelled or delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia government is urging people to stay off roads so that crews can safely clear streets following Sunday&#8217;s storm.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say they received numerous calls on Sunday of stranded passengers on roads throughout the province.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the Maritimes are still under blizzard warnings, but Environment Canada said the low pressure system would move away from the region later Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Thousands of people in the Maritimes are in the dark today after a savage winter storm pounded the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}