The important lessons we must learn from post-tropical storm Fiona
Glenn McGillivray is managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and adjunct professor of disaster and emergency management at York University.
On top of all that, power outages were extensive, with 400,000 customers without electricity in Nova Scotia and almost all of P.E.I. in the dark by the morning of the 24th. Fiona’s surface temperature was measured at 932.48 millibars. No hurricane has ever made landfall with such a low pressure north of Florida since 1851. So Fiona will go down as the lowest pressured hurricane ever to make landfall in Canada.
However, let’s focus on critical public infrastructure, which took a huge hit from both Fiona and the atmospheric river-related flooding that wreaked havoc in parts of B.C. in October of last year. It is becoming increasingly evident that such infrastructure can’t handle the extremes that our new climate change-driven weather patterns are throwing at it.
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