Lawrence about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Port aux Basques, carrying maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (110 kph), the NHC said.As Henri churns off the coast, the primary risks will be rough surf and dangerous rip currents at the beaches up and down the Eastern Seaboard through the rest of this week and this weekend.
By 5 pm in Halifax (2100 GMT), it was over the Gulf of St. The storm weakened somewhat as it traveled north. Quebec Premier Francois Legault said no injuries or fatalities had been reported so far, and officials from both PEI and Nova Scotia said the same. In Halifax, 11 boats sank at the Shearwater Yacht Club and four were grounded, said Elaine Keene, who has a boat at the club that escaped damage. "This morning we all woke up to some very scary scenes, roads washed down, uprooted trees, mail boxes where they are not supposed to be," Darlene Compton, deputy premier of PEI, told reporters, saying it had been a "nerve wracking" night. PEI produces more than a fifth of Canada's potatoes and the island's potato farms, which are in harvest season, were likely to be impacted by the storm, Hubbard said. Mobile and Wifi provider Rogers Communications Inc (RCIb.TO) said it was aware of outages caused by Fiona, and that crews would work to restore service "as quickly as possible." The region was also experiencing spotty mobile phone service. Police across the region reported multiple road closures. Some 69% of customers, or 360,720 were without power in Nova Scotia, and 95%, or more than 82,000, had lost power on Prince Edward Island, utility companies said. While scientists have not yet determined whether climate change influenced Fiona's strength or behavior, there is strong evidence that these devastating storms are getting worse. Storms are not uncommon in the region and typically cross over rapidly, but Fiona is expected to impact a very large area. "It did look like it had the potential to break the all-time record in Canada, and it looks like it did," he said. Ian Hubbard, meteorologist for the Canadian Hurricane Centre, told Reuters it appears Fiona lived up to expectations that it would be a "historical" storm. Instead he said he would visit the storm-damaged region as soon as possible.įederal assistance has already been approved for Nova Scotia, Trudeau said, and more requests are expected.įiona, which nearly a week ago battered Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean, killed at least eight and knocked out power for virtually all of Puerto Rico's 3.3 million people during a sweltering heat wave.įiona made landfall between Canso and Guysborough, Nova Scotia, where the Canadian Hurricane Centre said it recorded what may have been the lowest barometric pressure of any storm to hit land in the country's history. Trudeau had delayed his planned Saturday departure for Japan to attend the funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but said he now would no longer make the trip. "We will be there to support every step of the way." "We're seeing reports of significant damage in the region, and recovery is going to be a big effort," Trudeau said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met on Saturday morning with members of a government emergency response team, and later told reporters that the armed forces would be deployed to help with the clean up. "We've gone through a very difficult morning," Button said in a Facebook video, adding that the evacuations had been completed. Police are investigating whether a woman had been swept to sea, CBC reported. There are entire streets that are gone," he added. "There is an apartment building that's literally gone. "This is hands down the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life," Roy said, describing many homes as "just a pile of rubble in the ocean right now."
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