With freezing rain and winds in the forecast for the Maritimes, power utilities are on standby and advising customers to have emergency supplies at the ready.
Bakery owner Deana Stewart says it is a Christmas miracle her bakery made it through the year.
An ice storm this time last Christmas kept electricity off at her bakery for 5 days.
She took a $10,000 hit between that storm and 5 days of power lost in July due to post-tropical storm Arthur.
“It’s taken us probably all year to recover from the losses of the power outages last year and that was exactly a year ago,” says Stewart.
Stewart says she hopes the storm won’t ruin her Christmas dinner for the second year in a row.
“I put on soup on the woodstove and that was Christmas dinner,” says Stewart.
Dany Fale is hoping his 41,000 Christmas lights make it through the storm. Last year, he lost about 10 per cent due to the ice.
“Any bad weather is bad,” says Fale. “I'd rather have crisp snow and freezing, than rain, freeze, rain, freeze.”
With weather warnings back on the map exactly one year later, power utilities say they’re ready for what this Christmas may deliver.
“We're watching that very closely and were in very close contact with local contractors and our own line workers,” says Meghan Gerrish, NB Power.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Nick Moore
