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HALIFAX — Thousands of homeowners and businesses remained without power Saturday in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia one week after a powerful post-tropical storm swept through the region.

Most of the outages were in New Brunswick, where more than 12,000 customers were without power as of 1 p.m.

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NB Power spokesman Bob Scott said the utility hoped to have the vast majority of customers in the province reconnected Sunday.

“We’re certainly heading in the proper direction,” he said, adding that 315 crews were on the ground.

“The most important thing of all is that we’re doing this in a very safe manner because that’s the way it has to be done.”

More than half of the outages were in and around the capital city of Fredericton.

“There are a lot of huge trees down in Fredericton,” said Scott. “Trees falling on trees … falling on lines, all tangled up and in backlots in some cases.”

In Nova Scotia, the number of customers without power dwindled to about 500 overnight.