Pictures sent from the county Saturday morning showed some coastal homes smashed – and a few collapsed buildings fell into the sea or surrounded by flood waters – in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Pictures taken by Terry Osmond, a resident of the area, showed that in the county town of Channel-Port or Pasco, a collapsed building surrounded what appeared to be seawater on the beach, and cracked wood and other debris were scattered across the city.
“Never in my life has there been so much devastation…in our neighborhood,” Osmond, 62, wrote for CNN.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a woman in the town was rescued from the water on Saturday afternoon after her home collapsed. She was taken to the hospital. Police said the extent of her injuries was not immediately known.
About a 30-minute drive to the east, several buildings have been blown up in the coastal Newfoundland community of the Burnet Islands,
Video posted on Facebook by Pius Scott show up. Houses – or parts of them – collapsed into piles, scattered debris on the ground and sea water.
Power outages were reported to more than 540,000 utility customers in Atlantic Canada early Saturday afternoon, including more than 391,000 in Nova Scotia and nearly all 87,000 PEI customers, according to the
Poweroutage.com.
The storm made landfall in darkness early Saturday as a powerful post-tropical cyclone in eastern Nova Scotia, between Canso and Gisboro, and across Cape Breton Island in the province. Cape Breton area officials declared a state of emergency and
He asked people to take shelter in place.
“Across the county, we’re hearing reports of damaged trees and power lines as the storm continues to pass,” the Nova Scotia Office of Emergency Management
chirp.Inland west, in Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, the roof of an apartment complex collapsed, forcing about 100 people to move to a shelter, Mayor Mike Savage told CNN Saturday.
“Lots of uprooted trees — blackouts everywhere. Our bridges, our crossing connections, they’re all closed,” Savage said.
In the capital of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, the police
chirp Photos of the damage including the collapsed roof of the house.
“The conditions are unlike anything we’ve seen before,” Charlottetown Police wrote on Twitter early Saturday.
After passing through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Fiona should reach the lower north shore of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador by late Saturday,
Canadian Hurricane Center He said.
Hurricanes were reported Saturday across parts of Maritime Canada, generally ranging from 70 to 95 mph (110 to over 150 km/h). The maximum storm through mid-morning reached 111 mph (179 km/h) in Arresig, Nova Scotia, according to Environment Canada.
Precipitation can total up to 10 inches in some places, and major flooding is possible, forecasters say
He said.Officials along Canada’s Atlantic coast have urged people to prepare for the storm, which has already killed at least five people and cut power to millions.
Destroyed islands in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean this week.
Fiona “could be a historic event for Canada in terms of tropical cyclone intensity,” and it could also become the Canadian version of
Storm Sandysaid Chris Fogarty, director of the Canadian Hurricane Center. Sandy in 2012 affected 24 states and all of the East Coast, causing an estimated $78.7 billion in damage.
An unofficial atmospheric pressure of 931.6 megabytes was recorded on Hart Island, which would make Fiona the lowest landfall storm on record in Canada, according to the Canadian Hurricane Center.
Similarities to 2012’s Superstorm Sandy
It was Fiona
Class 4 A storm early Wednesday over the Atlantic after crossing the Turks and Caicos Islands and remained so until Friday afternoon, when it weakened on approach to Canada.
had become
Post-Tropical Before making landfall – meaning that instead of a warm core, the storm now has a cold core. This doesn’t affect the storm’s ability to produce high winds, rain and storm surge – it just means that the storm’s internal mechanics have changed.
Fiona approached Canada at the same time as the basin of low pressure and cold air in the north – much like
Sandy He did, according to Bob Rubichod of the Canadian Hurricane Center.
“Sandy was bigger than Fiona and expected to be equal. But the process is basically the same – you have two features feeding into each other to create one powerful storm as we’ll see,” he said on Friday.
As of 11 a.m. Saturday, hurricane-force winds extended as far as 115 miles from the center of Fiona while tropical storm winds reached as far as 405 miles,
to me US National Hurricane Center.
The large bulges that Fiona generates can cause life-threatening surfing and disrupt currents not only along the Atlantic Ocean of Canada, but also on the northeastern coast of the United States and Bermuda, the epicenter of hurricanes.
He said.
Alison Chinchar, Hana Sarrison, Sheriff Paget, Derek Van Dam, Halle Brink, Aya El Amrousy, Teresa Waldrop and Christina Maxuris contributed to this report.
