and thousands of homes and businesses without power, mostly on Cape Breton Island. CBC News meteorologist Tina Simpkin says the storm began overnight on Cape Breton, with 15 centimetres already down by sunrise in some places. Meanwhile, Transit Cape Breton is not operating due to poor road conditions, and ferries to and from Sydney, N.S., were cancelled for the day. 'Lucky there weren't more accidents'There were several minor road accidents as a results of the storm, but no major ones so far, Cape Breton Regional Police said. Nova Scotia Power's outage map showed about 13,000 customers without power as of late Tuesday evening, including about 11,500 in Cape Breton.
