The holiday weekend has been dampened for thousands in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia who have been without power since Fiona hit on Sept. 24.
Darlene Hughes will turn 65 on Sunday, but it won’t be quite the birthday — or the Thanksgiving — she had hoped for.
“Well, Thanksgiving,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion, “I always cook a turkey. And it’s always my birthday weekend. And there’ll be no turkey.” On Thursday morning, Hughes’s husband called a hotel to book a table for Saturday night so they can celebrate her birthday, but the cost was daunting. “We can’t afford it,” she said. “But he put it on his credit card and he said, ‘We’ll deal with it later.’”
“I got a coffee and it was almost $5 for a coffee. It was $4.25 for a medium coffee. Like really? Like, that’s just crazy.”About 350 kilometres to the east, in Sydney, N.S., Robert Grafilo said he expects to have some sort of Thanksgiving dinner with the friends in whose home he and his family are living. Maybe even “a few drinks,” he added.
“What a time for this holiday to come, as we are looking for a home. It would be normal, if this storm hadn’t happened,” Grafilo said.
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