Lee pummels toward the Maritimes, with flooding, high waves and power outages
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Post-tropical storm Lee is pummeling towards the Maritimes Saturday morning, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting more than 170,000 homes.
Post-tropical storm Lee is pummeling towards the Maritimes Saturday, bringing with it flooding, high waves and power outages affecting more than 170,000 homes as of noon.
Lee has been 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 in the afternoon.
The change in storm designation refers to the structure of the storm and does not lessen the expected impacts.
IN PICTURES: Lee brings heavy winds to the Maritimes
Some areas of southwestern region of Nova Scotia are already experiencing significant storm surges, with waves crashing into coastal roadways.
As of about 12 p.m., there were 135,100 houses without power in Nova Scotia, more than 35,600 homes in the dark in New Brunswick, and about 50 customers with no power on P.E.I.
No outages were reported by Newfoundland Power as of 12 p.m.
