HALIFAX - Power outages continue to affect Cape Breton residents and business a day after a powerful storm swept through the Atlantic region.
The storm pulled down power lines throughout the region and caused minor damage.
In Nova Scotia, more than two thousand Nova Scotia Power customers were without electricity early today.
Virtually all of them are in Cape Breton, including the communities of Sydney, Baddeck, Goshen, Ingonish and River Bourgeois.
Meanwhile, a 50-year-old man in Newfoundland is recovering from minor injuries after he was thrown into an oncoming vehicle by a gust of wind.
The man was crossing O'leary Avenue in St. John's yesterday when he was shoved across the road by a sudden blast of wind around 8 p.m.
As well, high winds also toppled a tractor-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Lewisporte Junction in central Newfoundland.
