You might want to tie down those Santa’s, snowmen, and reindeer.

Nova Scotia Power thinks it is a good idea with this wind and rain storm on the way.

Forcasts have wind gusts up around 100 km/h on Monday.

The company is preparing to have extra crews on standby today to get the lights back on in the event of outages.

Spokesperson Matt Drover says they have teams spread out across our province to respond.

“We will be positioning crews across the province so they are ready to respond as soon as it is safe to do so,” said Drover. “High winds can cause trees to come into contact with power lines causing power outages and can also slow restoration efforts, a” said Drover.

He is asking for patience as they must wait for winds to calm before getting crews up in buckets to get the lights back on.