Hurricane Fiona is sweeping the east coast of Canada with heavy rain and winds of up to 161 kilometers per hour. As a so-called post-tropical storm, it made landfall in the province of Nova Scotia early Saturday morning (local time), the Canadian Hurricane Center said.
The storm has crippled power to more than 500,000 homes and authorities are warning of storm surges. People in the affected coastal areas have been asked to stock up and not leave the house for 72 hours.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Nova Scotia temporarily lost power Saturday morning, according to utility company Nova Scotia Power. According to the local electricity supplier, there were also tens of thousands of outages in the neighboring province of Prince Edward Island.
Police in the provincial capital Charlottetown posted photos of fallen trees and power poles on Twitter.
Last weekend, Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico as a hurricane, causing severe damage there. Fiona has also wreaked havoc in the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A total of five deaths have been reported so far.
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