New Brunswick's pre-Christmas power outage among the worst of past decade
N.B. Power is still totalling up costs from the pre-Christmas storm that cut service to 129,000 New Brunswick customers, but based on previous big storms it will be a multimillion dollar bill.
![New Brunswick's pre-Christmas power outage among the worst of past decade](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7067562.1703711237!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/n-b-power-trees-on-lines.jpeg)
![Trees pushed into power lines by high winds on December 18 caused most of the outages that had crews working eight days to fully repair. A bucket from a truck balancing over a power line with a broken tree on it.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7067562.1703711237!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/n-b-power-trees-on-lines.jpeg)
N.B. Power is still totalling up costs from the pre-Christmas storm that cut service to 129,000 New Brunswick customers, but based on previous big storms it will be a multimillion dollar bill.