Heavy rain and high winds are knocking out power across Nova Scotia today, prompting schools, businesses and roads to close.
The Halifax Regional School Board has closed a number of its schools because of the outages and some businesses in the city also shut down.
Halifax police redirected traffic in a couple of areas because of a downed power line in the neighbourhood of Clayton Park and a branch that became entangled in another power line in the city's north end.
Rainfall warnings were issued for much of the province and Environment Canada warned that flooding in low-lying areas was possible.
At one point, more than 48,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were without power, though that number was dropping.