In Nova Scotia, about 69% of customers, or 360,000 were without power, and 95%, or more than 82,000, had lost power on Prince Edward Island, utility companies said. Police across the region reported multiple road closures. The region was also experiencing spotty mobile phone service.
Mobile and wifi provider Rogers Communications said it was aware of outages caused by Fiona, and that crews would work to restore service “as quickly as possible.“
PEI produces more than a fifth of Canada’s potatoes and the island’s potato farms, which are in harvest season, were likely to be damaged by the storm, Hubbard said.
“This morning we all woke up to some very scary scenes, roads washed down, uprooted trees, mailboxes where they are not supposed to be,” Darlene Compton, deputy premier of PEI, told reporters, saying it had been a “nerve-racking” night.
In Halifax, 11 boats sank at the Shearwater Yacht Club and four were grounded, said Elaine Keene, who has a boat at the club that escaped damage.
Source: Storm Fiona ravages Canada’s east coast causing ‘terrifying’ destruction | Canada | The Guardian
Autumn scene of cattle drinking from the Saco River, Maine, painted by Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1858. 
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