FOG BLOG MARITIME LOG: THOUSANDS STILL WITHOUT POWER IN N.S. SOME AREAS 40 MM ICE & 80 CM OF SNOW:

Thousands of Nova Scotians endure a 3rd day without power...Outages began Friday morning in icy storm.......Lori Furber and her husband had to bundle up after their power went out Friday afternoon. Power to their Lower Sackville home was restored Sunday afternoon. (Submitted by Lori Furber)

Thousands of Nova Scotia Power customers are enduring a third day without electricity after an ice storm on Friday led to widespread power outages across the province. Lori Furber of Lower Sackville, N.S., a part of the Halifax area that's seen significant outages, lost her power Friday afternoon and saw the temperature in her house drop steadily. "We're cold, we have lots of blankets on us," she said. Furber said she has a small generator to heat water to make hot drinks, but it's not enough to power the furnace.

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To make matters worse, Furber is unable to go to any of the warming centres open in the community, or to a friend or family member's house, because her husband is isolating at home with COVID-19. "We can't risk exposing anyone else to COVID ... you're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place, you've got nowhere to go," she said. Furber was pleased to report her power came back on Sunday at around 3:30 p.m. AT, just an hour shy of the 48-hour mark from when she first lost electricity on Friday.......Thousands of customers still in the dark

The storm began knocking out power on Friday morning as a mixture of snow, rain, freezing rain and ice pellets swept through. On Saturday, as many as 53,000 customers were without electricity.

The utility's outage map showed more than 29,000 customers without power Sunday at 7 a.m. AT. By 6:30 p.m., the number had dropped to just under 15,000.