Heavy rain and snow has caused flooding in the Bridgewater, N.S., area. (Submitted by MacDonald family)

Residents in parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are still dealing with the effects of a storm that hit the region in recent days.

Many parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are still covered by severe weather warnings issued by Environment Canada.

As more bad weather appears to be heading for the area, there were almost 900 New Brunswick customers still without power at 6:40 p.m. AT on Sunday, with the overwhelming majority of them in Miramichi.

NB Power is reporting 41 individual outages causing the loss of power to 772 customers.

Marianne Limpert, a spokeswoman for NB Power, said the utility's crews will be working into Monday to restore power.

"Our crews are working as quickly and as safely as possible to restore power to our customers, however, due to the severity of the damage, restoration efforts will continue throughout the night and into [Monday]," Limpert said in an email.

"With high winds expected [Sunday] evening, we would like to prepare customers to anticipate that they may be without power overnight and we kindly ask for their patience during this time."

Limpert said heavy snow and ice are weighing down trees causing branches to make contact with distribution lines.

She said crews are working to have power restored by midnight but she adds more bad weather is on the horizon.

"We have also seen that it looks like there is another weather system approaching now this evening and into [Monday]. So we are hoping to have all of our customers restored by midnight tonight," Limpert said in an interview.

"However, with this new system approaching, that could cause further outages. Hopefully that won't occur but I mean definitely that is a possibility whenever you have weather, snow and ice."

N.S. flooding concerns

Nova Scotia's Emergency Management Office and the Red Cross are concerned about flooding.

On Saturday, a family of five in the Bridgewater area had to be rescued by boat after Williams Lake overflowed.

With the lake waters rising, Melissa McDonald said she had no choice but to call for help from the Emergency Management Office, which called the New Germany Fire Department.

"The firemen actually had to pull us out," McDonald said.

"There was no motor or anything on the boat because in the water there was, like, large pieces of ice. And in certain spots it got really shallow and then really, really deep. So this was the only way that they could get to us."

With two dogs, a cat, and three children under the age of five, it took two trips to get everyone to dry land.

Just about everything else had to be left behind, including their vehicle.

McDonald said she and her husband Greg Wells still don't know how much damage there is.

The couple just moved into the home last fall.

"The landlord never told us about any of this flooding. And [we] see this flooding, the RCMP officer on site, he informed me that this happens every year, and sometimes it's even worse," McDonald said.

"He spoke to some of the local residents up the road and he said sometimes the house is completely under water."

McDonald said they're planning to move as soon as possible. For now, they're in a hotel waiting for floodwaters to recede before they return to see what's left of their belongings.

Dan Bedell, a spokesman for the Red Cross, said there are emergency response teams on standby in Yarmouth, Kentville and Bridgewater.

"Because we've had so much rain in the past few days, the water has saturated a lot of areas, and there is more coming," Bedell said.

"We are keeping our emergency response teams on alert through [Sunday]."

The emergency teams have roughly 20 members and are available to assist in evacuations if needed.

The emergency management office said there are some roads flooded out and they're also watching for storm surges in coastal communities.