THAT hurricane Fionalost steam and became a post-tropical phenomenon after blowing up Canada’s east coast in a hurricane on Saturday, leaving a woman missing and half a million homes without power.

With maximum winds of 80 kilometers per hour, Fiona struck, this Sunday (25), “north of Newfoundland, southeast of Labrador and parts of southeastern Quebec with strong winds”, informed the Canadian Hurricane Center (CFC, in the acronym in English), noting, however. , that “this wind will lessen at the end of the day”.

Two women were swept away by water in Channel-Port aux Basques, in Newfoundland province, a police spokesman said. One of the two victims was rescued and hospitalized, and the other is still missing.

At least 20 homes have been destroyed, and the area looks like a “war zone”, Channel-Port-aux-Basques mayor Brian Button said in a video posted on Facebook. According to him, residents are encouraged to take shelter in local schools.

“Fiona has come and left her mark on Nova Scotia and the surrounding provinces,” said the county’s head of government, Tim Houston, at a press conference held yesterday afternoon. “It’s not over yet,” he warned.

As of Saturday night, nearly 500,000 homes had power outages in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. Some homes will be without electricity “for a few days”, warned Nova Scotia Power’s operating director, Peter Gregg. “It will take time for Nova Scotia to recover. I’m just asking for patience from everyone,” Houston said in a statement.

192 millimeters of rain and 40 feet of waves hit Nova Scotia — where Fiona touched land on Saturday morning with winds of 144 km/h — and western Newfoundland, according to the weather service.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who canceled his attendance at Shinzo Abe’s funeral in Japan to follow the situation closely, announced on Twitter on Saturday that federal officials were ready “to provide additional resources to the province”.

“I think of everyone affected by Hurricane Fiona. Know that we are with you,” Trudeau tweeted. Fiona passed through Bermuda on Friday (23), after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, killing at least seven people: four in Puerto Rico, two in the Dominican Republic and one in Guadeloupe.