Cleanup begins after storm wreaks havoc on Atlantic Canada: ‘It was devastating’
HALIFAX — After hours of unrelenting rain, the roar came so suddenly it woke Helen Kendell. She went outside at 4 a.m. Tuesday to find her daughter frantic with fear — and a “tsunami” of water coming down Main Street in Morrisville, N.L.
“It took everything in its path. It was a foaming river, it was unreal,” Kendell said from her home in the community of about 100 residents in the Bay d’Espoir region.
“My daughter was just screaming. She said, ‘Mom, we’re all going to be drowned,’ because we didn’t know what was happening. I lived here almost 60 years and I’ve never seen anything like this before. It was frightening.”
In Morrisville, and much of Atlantic Canada, cleanup efforts were underway Tuesday after a storm that brought torrential rain and strong winds, leaving thousands without power and washing out roads.