The world’s best female curlers and thousands of fans are expected to arrive in Saint John this week for the World Women's Curling Championship.
Workers are busy getting things ready at Harbour Station where the event is set to kick off this weekend.
While the setup is under control, the weather isn’t; organizers are worried a major storm may impact the event.
“Well, we’ve had four flights cancelled, two out of Toronto, two out of Montreal already and we’ve got a team on there, Denmark I think and Korea I think was the other, they’ll have to be rerouted. We’ve got people who work the event for us, TV crews,” says event manager Terry Morris.
Morris says some fans coming to the event are hurrying hard to Saint John in an attempt to beat the storm. As for the teams already in the port city, they’ve been busy with meet and greets, but are also concerned about the forecast.
“We all have our parents coming and we’ve got a couple of other halves and sisters,” says Kerry Barr of Team Scotland.
Barr and the rest of the Scotland rink arrived on Monday. They are hoping the storm doesn’t hinder any of their fans who are travelling to cheer them on.
“They are not coming until the weekend and I think the storm should be hopefully over by then so we’ll see,” says Barr.
The teams will be practicing over the next couple of days and the first rock will be officially thrown on Saturday to kick off the event. It runs until March 23.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Ashley Dunbar
