Troops to remove trees and restore transport links after Fiona caused severe damage including torn-off roofs and flooding
. Police said a woman who might have been swept away was listed as missing in the town of Channel-Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland.“I’m seeing homes in the ocean, I’m seeing rubble floating all over the place – it’s complete and utter destruction,” René J. Roy, chief editor at Wreckhouse Press and a resident of the town, said in a phone interview. “There’s an apartment that is gone.
As the extent of damage became clear, the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, canceled his trip to Japan for the funeral for assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Mike Savage, mayor of Halifax, said the roof of an apartment building collapsed in Nova Scotia’s biggest city and officials had moved 100 people to an evacuation centre. He said no one was seriously hurt.More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers – about 80% of the province of almost 1 million people – were affected by outages on Saturday.
The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted that Fiona had the lowest pressure ever recorded for a storm making landfall in Canada. Forecasters had warned it could be the one of the most powerful storms to hit the country.More resilient infrastructure was needed to withstand extreme weather events, the prime minister said, adding that what was once a one-in-100 year storm might now arrive every few years because of climate change.
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