Post-tropical storm Lee hits the Maritimes with flooding, high waves and power outages
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Post-tropical storm Lee has hit the Maritimes, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting tens of thousands of homes Saturday.
Post-tropical storm Lee has hit the Maritimes, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting tens of thousands of homes Saturday.
The centre of post-tropical storm Lee made landfall at 5 p.m. Saturday on Long Island — an island in Digby County on the western coast of Nova Scotia. Areas of coastal Nova Scotia are experiencing significant storm surges, with waves crashing into roadways.
In the neighbouring Municipality of the District of Barrington, warden Eddie Nickerson said major waves have pummeled beaches, with ocean water covering coastal roads.
“The beach, it was quite a ball of waves there, bringing the stones over the road. It blocked a road off down there, and a pole was on fire on Stoney Island,” Nickerson said, referring to a community on Cape Sable Island.
Nickerson said Lee’s damage appears to have been less intense than anticipated, which is a relief to the region that was hard hit by wildfires earlier this summer. In the sea-side community of St. Andrews, N.B., mayor Brad Henderson said it will require a lot of work to deal with the many large trees that have been downed by Lee.
“We’ve had a lot of trees that have been knocked down in our community, a lot of those have gone across roads and across power lines,” Henderson said in an interview Saturday.
That’s what happened to a power line out front of St. Andrews resident Allan Flewelling’s home. He said he heard a snap, and saw that a large tree from his lawn had toppled -- causing a small fire.
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