Lee barrels toward the Maritimes, with flooding, high waves and power outages
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Post-tropical storm Lee is pummeling the Maritimes Saturday, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting as many as 170,000 homes.
Post-tropical storm Lee is pummeling the Maritimes Saturday, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting as many as 170,000 homes.
Lee was downgraded from a hurricane to a post-tropical storm, with the centre of the storm expected to make landfall between Nova Scotia’s Shelburne and Yarmouth counties through the afternoon.
“We’re not getting as hard a hit as we originally anticipated – lots of wind here – there are some trees down, but far better than we thought,” said Yarmouth Mayor Pam Mood around noon Saturday. “It’s not beautiful here, it’s windy.”
The change in storm designation refers to the structure of the storm and does not lessen the expected impacts.
Areas of coastal Nova Scotia are already experiencing significant storm surges, with waves crashing into roadways.
Erica Fleck, Halifax Regional Municipality’s emergency management director, is asking that all residents stay indoors and keep away from the coastline.
“It is really unsafe for people to be out there right now, we’re really urging residents to please be smart and stay home and shelter in place. There’s no need to be out right now unless it’s an absolute emergency,” Fleck said in an interview with CTV Atlantic Saturday.
