Our little town in Newfoundland Canada just survived Hurricane Igor. It's amazing to see the power of the weather sometimes. Here are some pics from around town that I pulled either off of facebook or the weather network...
roads were literally washed away:
a lot of homes were flooded
this was a popular walking trail:
No injuries were reported in our area, although a man in another town was "swept to sea" as they say. Our house made it though the storm with no damage, which we could not be more thankful for! We did have a bit of excitement last night with the wind blowing a power cable off the hydro tower between our house and neighbours, resulting in a fire. It took about an hour and a half to two hours for the power people to arrive and kill the power to the street so the fire could be put out. We had power back up and running in record time though! When the fire started we just off the power to the house to be safe. After about 3 hours without power though, we noticed our neighbours across the road had lights back on, so we tried ours and we were set! We were amazed at the speed.
One of the bridges on the main road attaching us to the rest of the island collapsed in the storm rendering us pretty alone at the moment. So now it's time for the community to band together and clean up the mess Igor left us with!
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