Photo from a residential area in Halifax, courtesy of Nicholas Bell.
Hundreds of thousands remain without power in Atlantic Canada on Tuesday, as crews continue to clean up the mess that Hurricane Dorian left behind.
The storm made landfall on Saturday as a category one hurricane before being downgraded to a post tropical storm.
Nicholas Bell, who is originally from Kipling now lives in Halifax with his wife, who ironically is also named Dorian.
Bell said for him, being from Saskatchewan, it was his first time experiencing a hurricane.
“Like you might expect it’s very very loud, there’s a ton of rain and wind, the rain is unbelievable,” said Bell. “We were getting water in the basement and trying to go down there and keep cleaning things up, but mostly we just sat and watched out the window, and we could see trees swaying, some we thought were going to go down, because they were swaying probably ten or 20 feet back and forth. The wind kept changing directions, it was pretty intense for about four hours,” Bell said.
Bell said they were lucky because they were only without electricity for 30 hours or so.
Some, like Bell’s younger brother, could be without power until next week.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale spoke from Halifax Tuesday morning and said the total damage assessment is still on-going.
No casualties have been reported from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I or Newfoundland.
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