Fiona turned into a post-tropical storm yesterday after a hurricane swept through Canada’s Atlantic coast, missing a woman and leaving 500,000 homes without power.
With maximum winds of 80 mph, Fiona is hitting “strong winds over parts of northern Newfoundland, southeast Labrador and southeast Quebec today,” but stressed that “these winds will eventually subside”, the Canadian Hurricane Center (CFC) said. Your day”.
A police spokesman said two women were dragged by the waters in Channel-Port aux Basques in the province of Newfoundland. One of the two victims was rescued and taken to hospital, while the other is missing.
Channel-Port-aux-Basques Mayor Brian Button said in a video posted on Facebook Saturday night that at least 20 homes were destroyed and the area looked like a “battlefield”.
According to him, residents were told to take shelter at a local school.
Uprooted trees, destroyed houses, damaged power lines. “Fiona has come and left her mark on Nova Scotia and surrounding provinces,” the district’s head of government, Tim Houston, said at a news conference yesterday afternoon. “It’s not over,” he warned.
As of late Saturday, nearly 500,000 homes in the states of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick were without electricity.
Peter Gregg, manager of operator Nova Scotia Power, warned that some homes will be without power for “several days”.
“It will take time for Nova Scotia to recover. I just ask for patience from everyone,” Houston said in a statement.
According to weather data, 192 millimeters of precipitation and 12-foot-high waves hit Nova Scotia – Fiona made landfall on Saturday morning with winds of 144 mph – and western Newfoundland.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who canceled his attendance at Shinzo Abe’s funeral in Japan to monitor the situation closely, announced on Twitter on Saturday that federal officials are ready to “provide additional resources to the provinces.”
“I’m thinking of everyone affected by Hurricane Fiona. Know that we are with you,” Trudeau said.
Fiona passed through Bermuda on Friday (23) after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, leaving at least seven dead: four in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in Guadeloupe.
source: Noticias
