They didn’t want to go through that again, he said. His family lost power for seven days after hurricane Juan ravaged the province in 2003.
Haner said that he moved his family to a larger home in Bible Hill 17 years ago partly because the residential village near Truro, N.S., had better services to offer, including what he thought was a more stable electricity grid. At the same time, I got no real answers.” I started the conversation by saying, ‘I apologize for the tone of my voice, but I am just beyond frustrated at this point.’ She didn’t take it personally. “I got an actual person,” he said Wednesday. That’s when he called Nova Scotia Power Inc., the province’s privately owned electric utility. On Tuesday, he was told the power would be back on by Saturday. He said he has grown weary of being repeatedly told the electricity will soon return, only to be told there will be another delay. He’s been hauling containers of water back and forth to his workplace every since. In Bible Hill, N.S., Barry Haner recalled how the storm flooded his basement and soaked the electric pump he uses for his well. The neighbours say they cry a couple times a day, too.” Taves, 62, said the storm has also frustrated her efforts to start a new business. It’s a real health and safety issue now.” “We have many seniors and vulnerable people _ persons with disabilities _ who have no way of contacting people to let them know they need help and are without safe drinking water.
“The people who are still without power are very distressed and exasperated,” Smith-McCrossin said late Tuesday in an interview. In northern Nova Scotia, hundreds of angry residents sent messages to provincial politician Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin earlier this week when they learned their homes would not be reconnected with the electricity grid until Sunday _ more than two weeks after Fiona’s hurricane-force winds started lashing the East Coast. and Nova Scotia were still in the dark Wednesday, many of them fuming about their fate.
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