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Exclusive: What it's like to live in Hurricane Fiona's destructive path
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Fiona has flooded streets, ripped homes from their foundation, toppled phone polls, and destroyed part of a sewer system. RCMP have also started investigating…

My cousin, who has opened her home to us, is crying in her kitchen. She is making tea and talking about whose homes are gone. She can name them and so can I. These are our friends, our neighbours. The ones whose homes have not yet been washed away are perched precariously on rocks and will not last much longer.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

To reach our cousin’s house in Mouse Island we had to re-route because the low-lying streets are closed. We are on another hill, this one a bit closer to the sea but with a higher rockface. There is a house floating in the water.Article content

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