Prior to this fall’s post-tropical storm Fiona, P.E.I. was no stranger to heavy weather. Other storms, like 2003’s hurricane Juan and 2019’s post-tropical storm Dorian battered the province, often knocking out power for days. But Fiona was something else.
Read moreSaltWire Network reporters heard from fishermen, farmers, climate change researchers, aid workers and storytellers everywhere that Fiona’s severity was beyond what anyone had seen before.
At its peak, 82,000 households lost power. Two weeks later, thousands still didn’t have their power restored. “The loss of assets doesn't really get counted the way they count the GDP, it's how much money gets spent. So, it's spending a whole lot of money fixing everything that's broken," Sentance said.
“We've been hearing climate change associated with coastal erosion, stronger storms, storm surges, flooding. But those things have tended to have only affected people that lived in high-risk areas,” Arnold told SaltWire in a Dec. 20 interview. Arnold said climate-driven disasters elsewhere have been shown to magnify existing vulnerabilities in society.
“In particular, the idea that you sort of leave old age homes till last, which seemed to be the way that it worked,” Sentance said. "That's obviously not acceptable.”
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