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Fiona makes landfall, slams Canada's Atlantic coast with severe winds and rain - CNN

Fiona makes landfall, slams Canada's Atlantic coast with severe winds and rain - CNN

Fiona makes landfall, slams Canada's Atlantic coast with severe winds and rain - CNN
Sep 24, 2022 1 min, 0 secs

More than 540,000 outages were reported in Atlantic Canada, including to nearly all of Prince Edward Island's 86,000 customers, according to utility tracker Poweroutage.com.

The storm made landfall in the darkness of early Saturday as a powerful post-tropical cyclone in eastern Nova Scotia, between Canso and Guysborough, and crossed over the province's Cape Breton Island.

Officials in Cape Breton area declared an emergency and asked people to shelter in place.

"Across the province, we're hearing reports of damaged trees and power lines as the storm continues to pass through," the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office tweeted.

West of landfall, in Nova Scotia's capital, Halifax, an apartment complex's roof collapsed, forcing about 100 people to leave for a shelter, Mayor Mike Savage told CNN Saturday.

"A lot of uprooted trees -- power outages all over the place.

Our bridges, our connections to transit, are all closed out," Savage said.

In the Prince Edward Island capital of Charlottetown, police tweeted photos of damage including a home's collapsed ceiling.

"Conditions are like nothing we've ever seen," Charlottetown police tweeted early Saturday.

Several buildings were blown apart In the coastal community of Burnt Islands in Newfoundland and Labrador, video posted to Facebook by Pius Scott showed.

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