CHARLOTTETOWN — Residents of Prince Edward Island said Monday they're growing exhausted, anxious and cold as thousands remained without power nine days after post-tropical storm Fiona swept through the region.
Wanda Arnold, a 70-year-old resident of Huntingdon Court seniors complex in Charlottetown, said in an interview she and other residents have been given blankets, but at night they've been shivering in the dark.
Peter Bevan-Baker, leader of the Opposition Green Party, said he has questions about why the restoration is taking so long."It's been frustratingly slow. Ten days in with the temperatures we've seen and will continue to see, this is a public health and human safety issue." P.E.I. Premier Dennis King said his government has been attempting to obtain temporary generators for common areas in the provincial seniors complexes without power.
"It makes me very angry that there's not more being done ... I think the government could be doing more but instead it's up to us to help these folks and I don't think that is OK," she said in an interview on Monday.
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