A house battles Fiona’s strong winds in Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saturday, September 24. The house has since been lost at sea.
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Updated at 1154 GMT (1954 HKT) on September 25, 2022
A house battles Fiona’s strong winds in Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saturday, September 24. The house has since been lost at sea.
Rene Roy/Wreckhouse Press/AP
Hurricane Fiona, now known as a post-tropical cyclone, made landfall in Nova Scotia early Saturday, battering the region with heavy rain, flooding and strong winds.
“This could be a historic event for Canada in terms of tropical cyclone intensity,” and could even become Canada’s version of Superstorm Sandy, the director of the Hurricane Center said Friday from Canada, Chris Fogarty. In 2012, Sandy affected 24 states and the entire eastern seaboard, causing an estimated $78.7 billion in damage.
Fiona weakened slightly to a Category 2 storm on Friday, but is still expected to bring damaging storm surge, heavy rain and strong winds. Fiona had strengthened to a Category 4 storm after tearing through the Caribbean.