It’s a story playing out across Atlantic Canada: Thanksgiving has been dampened for thousands in PEI and Nova Scotia who are still without power
Darlene Hughes will turn 65 on Sunday, but it won’t be quite the birthday – or the Thanksgiving – she had hoped for.
“Well, Thanksgiving,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion, “I always cook a turkey. And it’s always my birthday weekend. And there’ll be no turkey.” Hughes said she and her husband also have to cope with the mess the storm left on their property. “We’re too old for this right now – lugging branches and lifting branches and fixing fences. We’ve lost all our fences in the back.”
“We ate breakfast one day, and it was $44 to have breakfast, and that was just a breakfast like a bacon and eggs,” she said. After the building was evacuated, Grafilo, his wife and their two boys, aged 10 and three, spent part of their savings on hotels for a week. When the power returned in parts of the city, close friends within the small Filipino community took the couple into their home in the Whitney Pier neighbourhood.
“It’s like I just want them to feel that they’re not alone in this kind of situation … We will celebrate it and have a simple gathering for Thanksgiving. We should still celebrate it because we should be thankful they are safe.”
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