Fiona causes ‘significant damage’ to P.E.I. infrastructure, power outages remain: premier
“You could hear water dripping down. It was kinda scary,” said Carly Connell. “I was up about five or six times during the night. I could sleep intermittently, but I definitely had some spurts of being afraid.”
“We walked out this morning to go to my car to get a flashlight and more than half the trees were fallen over, it was crazy,” she added. The acting director of public safety for PEI, Tanya Mullally, said at the briefing that Fiona is moving out of the province and heading towards Newfoundland. “There’s still some rain, heavy rainfall warnings have ended but we are still seeing some high winds, however, they are starting to dip below the 100 km/hr mark,” Mullally said.Storm Fiona: Nova Scotia to receive federal disaster financial assistance, military aid“Tomorrow will be … the calm after the storm,” Mullally said.
In the meantime, coastal flooding remains a threat for parts of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, including the Northumberland Strait, the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, as well as Iles-de-la-Madeleine and eastern New Brunswick, southwest Newfoundland, the St. Lawrence Estuary and the Quebec Lower North Shore.The hurricane centre said conditions will improve over western Nova Scotia and eastern New Brunswick later in the day but will persist elsewhere.
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