Hurricane Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers and damaged homes on Canada's Atlantic coast Saturday.
Saturday, damaging homes with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.
More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% of the province of almost 1 million — were affected by outages Saturday morning. Over 82,000 customers in the province of Prince Edward Island were also without power, while NB Power in New Brunswick reported 44,329 were without electricity. “On the forecast track, the center of Fiona will move across eastern Nova Scotia and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence this morning, and then move across Labrador and over the Labrador Sea on Sunday,” the NHC said in a bulletin.
Fiona approached Bermuda on Friday as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm weakened to a Category 3 and lashed the island with heavy rain and gusts of 100 mph as it passed, officials said. No deaths were reported there.in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It made landfall as a Category 1 storm. A pedestrian shields themselves with an umbrella while walking along the Halifax waterfront as rain falls ahead of Hurricane Fiona making landfall in Halifax, on Friday.Prince Edward Island, Isle-de-la-Madeleine, and western Newfoundland and Labrador were also under hurricane warnings, the U.S. agency said. Tropical storm warnings covered other areas.
Empty shelves are seen in a grocery store as shoppers stock up on food in advance of Hurricane Fiona making landfall in Halifax on Friday.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police urged people to stay off roads and to avoid unnecessary travel until the storm passed. Emergency officials on Nova Scotia, anticipating outages, warned residents about the lethal dangers of carbon monoxide from generators if used indoors.
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