HALIFAX -- Electricity was being restored in Nova Scotia after heavy rain and high winds knocked out power across the province overnight, prompting schools, businesses and roads to close.
The Halifax Regional School Board closed a number of its schools because of the outages and some businesses in the city also shut down.
Nova Scotia Power says about 50,000 customers were without power at the peak of the outages.
There were also reports of flooded roads from the storm on Prince Edward Island.
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador issued an advisory warning residents in parts of the province to prepare for as much as 100 millimetres of rain in a short period of time, and winds gusting up to 120 kilometres an hour.
