HALIFAX - A combination of salt and moisture from a fresh snowfall is being blamed for another round of power outages in Nova Scotia.
More than 40,000 customers were off the grid at one point today, including roughly 30,000 in the metro Halifax area.
Nova Scotia Power says high winds last weekend left a salty deposit on insulators around Halifax and that, combined with today's snow, caused electrical arcing.
At the peak of today's outages, there were about 48,000 customers off the grid provincewide.
That number was down to around 32,000 by mid-afternoon.
Meantime, repair crews are still trying to restore power for several thousand other customers around the province who lost electricity in the weekend storm.
