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ILVMNY,

It is easier to post here as this is off topic.

The hurricanes here are usually low end Cat 1’s or tropical storms and we do get our share of them. These are not as severe as anything you have went through in the south. My step brother lives in Alambama and he has had his share over the years.

The problem here is the power; we pay the highest rates in the country with poorly maintained equipment. In the past few years we have suffered power outages from things like:

Category 2 Hurricane, Hurricane Juan 2003. (This is understandable)
White Juan, 2003 1 meter of snow in 24 hours, 2004(Winds were high so I can understand this one as well)
Gay Pride Parade streamers blacked out the City of Halifax
Crows nests in power lines blacked out Cole Harbour
Salty Fog (numerous power outages that lasted for days causing damage to computer systems throughout the province)
Salty Snow (light flurries on Christmas Eve that blacked out most of the province for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)
Early season snow storm (Nova Scotia gets a lot of snow so why is this any different)

This link explains a bit of it:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061105/novascotia_fog_outage_061105?s_name=&no_ads=

Salty Snow:

http://www.nspower.ca/en/home/aboutnspi/mediacentre/NewsRelease/2008/lingeringeffects.aspx

Hurricane Juan:

http://www.ibew258.bc.ca/nsprivatepower.html

With the utilities background even a tropical storm around here can leave us in the dark for long periods of time.

I don’t fear the storms as much because we rode the eye wall of hurricane Juan for 3 hours. It is an amazing thing to experience after the storm has passed, it is scary at the time though.