Many Nova Scotians will be spending part of Sunday in temporary shelters, making insurance calls, revving up chainsaws and wielding rakes as they clean up after post-tropical storm Fiona.
Amanda McDougall, the mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, said the top priority for staff is ensuring residents have adequate shelter and support.
Jason Mew, a director with the province's emergency management office, said both Imperial Oil and Irving Oil had power outages on Saturday night, but have been refuelling trucks on Sunday, so the situation should improve soon.The Cabot Trail from Neils Harbour to Ingonish, which closed on Saturday, has reopened, while the road will reopen at French Mountain by early afternoon.Monica Hogan of New Haven, N.S.
Osborne Burke, general manager of the Victoria Co-op Fisheries in Neils Harbour, is in Europe on his way to a seafood trade mission. However, he has spoken to staff at the fishermen-owned processing plant and seen pictures.The damage at the fish plant was "horrendous," Burke said. The plant is onshore inside a large rock breakwater, but it's like that didn't even exist, he said.
Erica Fleck, the assistant chief of Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, said crews removed 268 trees from main roads in the municipality over a 12-hour period Saturday. "There are going to be parts of this province where our customers can expect multiple-day outages, as difficult as that is. I know it's frustrating, it's just the extent of the damage."
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