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All day yesterday had no cable or internet, holy BORED. I hope I never have to go through that again!

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Atlantic Canadians will have to bundle up tight up to dig out from Monday's blizzard, which blanketed the region with upwards of 50 centimetres of snow.

While the snowfall has mostly stopped, it's now downright freezing.

Meteorologist Kathleen Young says most of the region will experience temperatures Tuesday ranging from minus 25 to minus 30. A windchill warning has been issued for northern New Brunswick where temperatures will dip below minus 35.

Keeping warm won't be easy for some. Nova Scotia Power says over 4,000 customers are without electricity in the province's northeast.

A number of areas in the western part of Prince Edward Island and east of Surrey, P.E.I. are also believed to be without power.

And the storm is not over for western Cape Breton and the west coast of Newfoundland. Environment Canada says blizzard warnings remain in effect in those areas.

The blizzard is a good old fashioned nor'easter that moved up from North Carolina and brought rain to the U.S. eastern seaboard before it began dumping snow on Atlantic Canada Sunday night.

The Charlottetown area was worst hit, with a blanketing of 54 centimetres. Greenwood, Nova Scotia saw 48 cms of snow; Moncton, New Brunswick was close behind with 47 cm.

The snowfall, combined with gusts up to 100 kilometres an hour, clogged roads and pretty much closed down the shopping malls despite traditional Boxing Day specials.

A Nova Scotia woman had to be rescued after she drifted down the LaHave River on a small wharf that broke away from her home. Laurenda Reeves noticed that her wharf was being damaged by the storm Monday. While trying to secure it, the wharf began to drift out on the river. She was rescued and taken to hospital.

Flights were cancelled at Halifax International Airport Authority, the region's largest airport. Flights were also cancelled at the airports in Moncton and Saint John. In Charlottetown, the airport was closed altogether for many hours.

The winds also forced the Confederation Bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island to close to large trucks. Marine Atlantic reported delays in ferry travel between Newfoundland and Cape Breton.

An offshore supply vessel, the Maersk Gabarus, was damaged in the storm off Sable Island. A coast guard vessel was preparing to head out to to assist the Gabarus back to Halifax.

While the system brought plenty of the white stuff, it was nowhere near the record-setting blizzard dubbed "White Juan" that brought both Nova Scotia and P.E.I to a standstill for three days in February of this year, dumping as much as 95 centimetres of snow on some areas.

This winter, though it's still only December, some Maritime residents are already fed up.

"I hate winter," New Brunwswick resident Jerome Ardelli told ATV's Tracy Prysiazniuk as he shovelled his driveway.

"I hate snowflakes, individually -- each and every one of them."

Not everyone was flustered by the flurries.

"I think the storm is great. We complained about Ontario, laughed at them, and it's about time we got it," Marcelle Doucet told ATV's Michelle Dassinger in Saint John.

With a report from ATV's Jonathan MacInnis, Tracy Prysiazniuk and Michelle Dassinger