Making dinner will be challenging in St. Stephen and Fredericton tonight with a significant power outage impacting the towns.
Nearly 1700 households in the capital city are in the dark and over 900 homes and businesses in Bordertown are without electricity.
High winds causing tree branches to hit power lines is the likely culprit but no word and when the lights will come back.
Across the province NB Power reports more than 4000 of their customers are without power.