Municipalities, emergency organizations and police warn Islanders to shelter in place, even as the storm recedes. Downed power lines, falling branches and high waves all pose a risk.
Broken tree limbs lay on top of damaged cars in a Charlottetown parking lot after post tropical storm Fiona. - Logan MacLean • The GuardianCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — It started with a few hundred power outages. Then it was a few thousand.
Summerside has its own power company, but does not keep a regularly updated count of outages on its website. Maritime Electric updates its outage map every 10 minutes.‘Battening down the hatches:’ Farmers rush harvest to prepare for hurricane in P.E.I., facing extra challenge of wet week And Flyyyg.com, the website for the Charlottetown Airport, listed all arrivals and departures for Sept. 24 as canceled.
The City of Charlottetown sent out a press release at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday warning about downed trees and powerlines blocking streets.
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