Tag: Hurricane Fiona

Power supply cut, buildings damaged as Tropical Cyclone Fiona rips through eastern Canada

Powerful storm Fiona ripped into eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds, forcing evacuations, knocking down trees and powerlines, and reducing many homes on the coast to “just a pile of rubble in the ocean.” The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the center of the storm, downgraded to Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona, was now in… Read More Power supply cut, buildings damaged as Tropical Cyclone Fiona rips through eastern Canada

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Hurricane Fiona drenches Bermuda with heavy rain, heads towards Canada

Hurricane Fiona drenched Bermuda with heavy rain and buffeted the Atlantic island with hurricane-force winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward Nova Scotia, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history. Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in the week, killing at least eight… Read More Hurricane Fiona drenches Bermuda with heavy rain, heads towards Canada

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Power supply cut as Hurricane Fiona slams Turks and Caicos

Hurricane Fiona bore down on Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a powerful Category 3 storm, slamming the Caribbean archipelago with heavy rains and life-threatening flooding after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. U.S. officials said on Tuesday the storm had claimed four lives in Puerto Rico. A… Read More Power supply cut as Hurricane Fiona slams Turks and Caicos

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Power supply cut as Hurricane Fiona swamps Puerto Rico

Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without power on Sunday, causing catastrophic flooding and landslides on the island before barreling toward the Dominican Republic, a government agency said. The storm, hitting Puerto Rico five years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, ripped up asphalt from roads, swept away a major road bridge, closed airports,… Read More Power supply cut as Hurricane Fiona swamps Puerto Rico

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