It was freezing: N.S. woman angry after planned power outage drags on for hours – Halifax [Video]

Many people living in Lunenburg, N.S., and surrounding communities were left in the dark over the weekend, after a planned power outage dragged on much longer than expected.

Businesses were forced to close and some homes went without heating for hours as temperatures dropped well below freezing.

Melissa Duggan said the experience was made especially difficult because both her children were sick and her daughter was recovering from pneumonia at the time.

Nova Scotia Power initially told customers power would be cut off late Saturday night and be restored by 7 a.m. Sunday as part of a planned outage to improve service reliability.

But Duggan said the outage dragged on and there was no communication about when the outage would end.

“It was freezing in the house. We had no way to heat the house, no way to make food, no way to know, really, when the power was going …