5 schools closed, thousands without power on P.E.I. 13 days after Fiona
CBC
More than 9,000 Maritime Electric customers are now without power on Thursday morning, 13 days since post-tropical storm Fiona made landfall on P.E.I.
Repair crews are beginning to turn their attention to individual outages as well as larger pockets of outages nearly two weeks after Fiona took out the power.
Individual outages are where as few as one or two households are without electricity.
Maritime Electric lists a breakdown online of different areas on the Island, roughly how many are in the dark and when the power should be restored.
According to the webpage, places like Brudenell and those on the main roads in Stanhope should have electricity by the end of Thursday.
The company is aiming to have power back on for nearly all of the Island by Sunday.
As work on transmission lines continues, a rolling closure of the Trans-Canada Highway is expected on Thursday between the North River Bridge and the North River Roundabout.
This will take place between 9 a.m and 2 p.m.
At some points, just one lane will be shut but there will also be a few full road closures — those will take place a couple of minutes at a time.
Drivers can expect minor delays because of the work being done.
Students who attend Cardigan Consolidated resumed classes for the first time yesterday in a temporary spot at Montague Regional High School, and classes also resumed at Donagh Regional yesterday.
In Charlottetown, Prince Street Elementary, Queen Charlotte Intermediate, St. Jean Elementary and West Kent remain closed.
According to city officials, while those schools are physically ready to open the areas surrounding the schools are still unsafe.
For example, there could be trees tangled in power lines, unstable power poles or downed wires.
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