'Fiona smashed into Canada with by far the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the nation. This is not the same earth we were born onto.' billmckibben
swept into the sea in southern Newfoundland Saturday after post-Tropical Storm Fiona slammed into eastern Canada with winds racing at nearly 81 miles per hour and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded for a storm in the country.
After knocking out power in Puerto Rico last week when it hit the U.S. territory as a Category 1 hurricane and intensifying to a Category 4 storm as it approached Bermuda, Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia, where it causedat an airport in Sydney and cut off power for more than 415,000 of the province's 500,000 customers.
On Sunday, more than 265,000 households in Nova Scotia were still without power, and the province's electricity company warned the outages would persist"for multiple days." Fiona has been blamed for at least five deaths in the Caribbean; in Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, one woman has been listed as missing after her home was"struck by a devastating wave," and authorities were investigating whether"she went out with the water," Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson Jolene Garland
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