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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING • Over 80% of NS Power customers without power.
FOR SEVERE WEATHER Power crews begin work as winds subside.
In Atlantic Canada, hurricane season peaks between • 40% of secondary and tertiary roads blocked.
September through November, followed by a period of • Telecommunications outages reported in several
winter storms from December through March. Hence, regions.
the provincial business continuity program follows Basic • Tourism Nova Scotia Visitor Information Centres
Emergency Management (BEM) best practice to prepare become information conduit for travellers impacted by
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government entities for storm disruptions starting in April . Hurricane Dorian.
• Hope Landing (care facility for youth with special
HURRICAN DORIAN: CHRONOLOGY needs) reports flooding and power outage.
OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY RESPONSE • Provincial business continuity plan for telecom
disruption is activated.
September 3rd – 6th
• NSEMO began issuing weather alerts for Hurricane Sunday, September 8th
Dorian. • Damage assessment and response effort began.
• BCMO sent provincial business continuity storm plan • Canadian Armed Forces personnel deployed into Nova
guidance to provincial entities. Scotia.
• NSEMO made a request for Canadian Armed Forces • 60% of NS Power customers without power. Power
support in advance of Hurricane Dorian. crews began arriving from outside NS.
• 20% of secondary roads blocked.
Saturday, September 7th • Intermittent telecommunications outages reported in
• Hurricane Dorian made landfall at 19:15 near Halifax several regions.
as a post tropical storm affecting all regions of the • 55 people overnight in shelters.
province with hurricane force winds. • 66 comfort centres reported operating.

Figure 5: Hurricane Dorian track and wind gusts. Source: Environment & Climate Change Canada.
Figure 5 : Trajectoire de l’ouragan Dorian et rafales de vent. Source : Environnement et Changement climatique Canada.

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