Fiona's wrath leaves wake of destruction in Port aux Basques
Ted Keeping is glad he went back home to Port aux Basques a month ago for a family visit and wasn’t there this past weekend when Fiona reared her ugly head.
“My sister that lives there, she’s fine, she’s quite a ways from the water, but they were pretty scared about the windows blowing in,” he said. “The worst thing that they were fearing was their picture window coming in. Those houses on the shore that did survive, the windows were blown out of most of them. A buddy of mine that lived for 40 years on that water and this one took him right out. There’s three or four feet of water in their house and it took out all the windows.
“It was sitting all by itself and asked if there was a trail going to it and my buddy said, ‘No, that was the last storm in April that took it from the beach and brought it inland and it stayed there,” said Keeping. “The boardwalk I used to walk in the beach area is gone.” A 73-year-old woman died Saturday in Port aux Basques after her house was hit by a huge wave just as she went to the basement to check out the effects of an earlier wave that rocked the house. Keeping knows the woman she was with at the time but still doesn’t know the identity of the dead woman. Chances are he will recognize the name. In Port aux Basques, a town of about 4,000, practically everybody knows everybody who lives there.
“They got lucky, everybody was OK, they were just expecting a regular storm like they always get but I guess nobody thought it was going to be as bad as it was,” said Kevin Keeping.
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