Storm surges and heavy rainfall expected before weather event gradually weakens this weekend, say meteorologists
, and sharing a number of storm-prepping techniques on social media, such as keeping extra batteries on hand and using ice to keep food cold in case of a power outage.
“We’re looking at the potential for maybe near or even the highest water levels they’ve ever seen, so that could be quite, quite dangerous, quite damaging,” the Environment Canada meteorologist Rob Carroll told CBC.Photograph: Darren Calabrese/AP At Samson Enterprises boatyard in the small Acadian community of Petit-de-Grat on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island, Jordan David was helping his friend Kyle Boudreau tie down Boudreau’s lobster boat Bad Influence in the hope it would not be lifted and broken by winds.
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